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...Chicago they've been dubbed the "Bleacher Bums," and they spend the game arguing about location supremacy. The rightfielders yell, "Left Field sucks," and the leftfielder retort with an equally imaginitive barb. And mixed in among the diehard scorekeepers, the beer guzzling fixtures and the cheerleading rowdies, there float the bleacher wisemen--bastions of baseball lore who are no less than bold in making their thoughts well known...
Nearly a decade of bloodshed and upheaval has left the country in ruins, its population decimated, its economy shattered. The countryside is still ravaged by a war between invading Vietnamese troops who support Hanoi's puppet regime of Heng Samrin in Phnom-Penh and diehard Khmer Rouge guerrillas loyal to ousted Premier...
Sadly, as the editors of the 1940s, '50s and '60s point out, the literary gadflies have lost much of their sting. The underground has become fashionable: everybody has joined the avant-garde and Allen Ginsberg has joined academe. Lacking the diehard convictions of their elders, most of the 1,500 little magazines now being published print anything and wind up sounding the same. "The multiplication of poets sort of leaves my mind blank," says Poet Karl Shapiro, former editor of Poetry. In many ways this collection of essays is a retrospective; editors like Robie Macauley, formerly...
...grew to be close friends. In fact, Bucky and I went skydiving together during the week before he courageously carried off one of the University of Michigan's cheerleaders to the Wisconsin side of Camp Randall Stadium in retaliation for the loss the Wolverines were currently inflicting upon the diehard Badger fans...
These reassurances won Teng high marks from all but the most diehard supporters of Taiwan. Chief among them is Senator Barry Goldwater, who ducked Teng's visit by going home to Arizona for the week. But another conservative leader. Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, called Teng's lobbying "generally effective." Senator Ted Kennedy declared that the Vice Premier had made a "hell of an impression." Said Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York: "He didn't commit himself down the line fon Taiwan], but he said enough so that our normalization can go ahead...