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...Wire. To date, Rockefeller's strategy has been to keep Romney's cause afloat at least through the first three or four state primaries. But the pressure is increasing for Rockefeller to speak up for himself and to campaign openly in Oregon, where he has strong support. "Nelson Rockefeller has been silent long enough," the New York Times editorialized last week. "If he is to serve the national interest, he has to make clear his present opinions about the war-in whichever direction they lie-and assume the burdens and risks of active party leadership...
That influence is rapidly expanding. Institutional investors now account for at least 35% of the trading on the New York Stock Exchange, and the proportion will be up to 50% by the mid-1970s. From 1955 through 1966-the latest date for which totals are available-the market value of stocks owned by institutions rose tremendously: from $9 billion to $19 billion for insurance companies, $12 billion to $37 billion for mutual funds, and from $6 billion to $38 billion for pension funds...
Four "Reflections" have appeared to date. Like his books, they deal with what book reviewers call "the human condition" and therefore are not required to be topical. While most columnists are content to get a few facts straight, Hoffer likes to sum up whole civilizations with epigrammatic flourish. In this week's column, he chides U.S. intellectuals. They are "likely to consider any achievement not fathered by words as illegitimate," he writes. "Hence their disdain of things which have come to pass by chance. To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries...
Dylan, apparently reacting against his total emotional involvement in the stifling, up-to-date agonies of Blonde on Blonde, took care to place his new songs in another, strange realm. This process is akin to the Brechtian notion of "defamiliarization"--making the action subject to rational scrutiny, unclouded by emotion, because it is viewed from a distance. And since this technique requires activation by a Message, Dylan was able to infuse John Wesley Harding with a spiritual, almost religious tone...