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...stiff hike up the hill from the Red Dog, nobody in the state capitol building sees anything to chuckle about. When Steve Cowper, the new Governor of the largest state in the union, looks out his third-floor window, his horizon does not stretch far enough to see another boom, or even a boomlet. What he sees is a budget deficit of $882 million and diminished prospects for the state's heretofore pampered citizens. A man who favors cowboy boots and long silences, Cowper says sardonically, "It's a four-year term unless they burn me out of the mansion...
...place, they substituted a state- sponsored giveaway. Each and every resident was paid an annual "dividend" of some $500 merely for living in the state. The big spenders in Juneau also voted to give residents 65 and older an additional $250 each month as a longevity bonus. Says Cowper: "Government was in the business of dividing up the loot...
...Alaska's Senatorial election Republican incumbent Frank E. Murkowski faced a challenge from Democrat Glenn Olds. In the Governor's race. Arliss Sturgulewski, is squaring off against Republican Steve Cowper...
...Doctor Swift. There are generous selections from Mathew Prior, Isaac Watts, John Gay, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, Christopher Smart, Robert Burns, and William Blake, and an appropriately limited one from that misplaced Poet Laureate Colley Cibber. Lonsdale has often embellished Smith's selections from deserving poets like William Cowper and the dazzling and vitriolic Charles Churchill...
...practiced it gladly; romantic poets preached it madly; the early Christians pursued de facto suicide by avidly seeking martyrdom, until in A.D. 412 Saint Augustine declared the act a mortal sin. Alvarez also offers a fascinating chronicle of literary figures who espoused, contemplated or tried suicide-Montaigne, John Donne, Cowper, Thomas Chatterton, Dostoevsky, and so on up to Hart Crane and Ernest Hemingway. It is only toward the end that one realizes Alvarez is thesis pushing, that the book is as much apologia as inquiry. His questionable message: the 20th century is the age of death. But, Alvarez argues, because...