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...down for a swim in the White House pool. Then the two had lunch while Kennedy explained that he had a new job, outside Washington, in mind for Bowles. Bowles not only refused to bite at Kennedy's bait, but went out and stirred up protests among his cultist liberal following. In the face of a fuss, Jack Kennedy backed away - but anyone
Lots of people liked Julian Harvey. A handsome, curly-headed, flat-bellied man of 44, he was a familiar figure around the Florida ports where he worked as a captain and sometime seaman on chartered yachts. He was a weight lifter and a physical-fitness cultist, with a stammer that somehow seemed to enhance his charm. Moreover, he was as brave as he was likable. For 16 years Harvey had been in the Air Force. He flew in North Africa, Europe and the South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes...
...done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban," "a one-man band," a "Patagonian." As to what Patagonian means in the Miller context, the only source seems to be Poet Karl Shapiro, who introduces this U.S. edition in the characteristic style of the muddled and ecstatic cultist: "What is a Patagonian? I don't know, but it is certainly something rare and sui generis. We can call Miller the greatest living Patagonian...
Future Novel. Author Kaye seems a little self-conscious about his aims-the setting up of organic v. organization man, authentic v. inauthentic life. As a neo-pagan body cultist, he is forced to deny the claims of mind and spirit and reduce the variety of human relationships to that of hunter and prey. What Author Kaye has to offer that is new is not his message but his fictional mode. The realistic novel is gradually going bankrupt. It has mapped out the geography of the environment from battlefront to suburban home front from Main Street to Madison Avenue...
...Gateshead schoolmaster named J. Thomas Looney, a proper foil for the Baconian camp's George M. Battey. The fact that De Vere died in 1604, and The Tempest, for example, contains allusions to events after 1604, puts a crimp in the thesis-but to a cultist, what's in a crimp...