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Although Brutus still faces possible deportation and although the demise of South Africa's apartheid system still appears distant, the poet/activist remains surprisingly optimistic about the prospects of improvement for his people. He sees America playing an important role in the process; "I find a tremendous surge of radicalism and activism beginning, just the start of a ground swell; and as the Reagan plan unfolds, people are going to get more and more angry. There are going to be a lot more people out in the street, marching." Brutus reflects on his anti-apartheid activities in America and South Africa...
...details of Leonid Brezhnev's tears and grief after the recent death of Mikhail Suslov, the hard-line ideologue of the Politburo. Some of those secret reports tell of instant "personality changes" of high Soviet diplomats when they were informed of Suslov's demise. Those diplomats grew distant, their minds back in Moscow, as they worriedly waited for the changes that inevitably follow any unexpected interruption in totalitarian authority...
...latest and most furious ratings scramble among the networks began last March when CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite stepped down to make way for Dan Rather. Cronkite's Evening News had consistently attracted the most viewers for 14 years, with NBC a strong second, ABC a distant third. Suddenly, however, all bets were off. While a visibly uneasy Rather adjusted to his new role, viewers began to drift to other channels. The major gainer: ABC News, which, since Roone Arledge took over as president in 1977, has fashioned a slick, fast-paced style of reporting that bristles with the latest...
...Complete Clerihews gathers all 140 examples of the master's voice, along with the drawings that accompanied their publication (Bentley's illustrators included O.K. Chesterton and his own son Nicolas). This collection helps define the form. Unlike the limerick, its distant relative, the clerihew does not accommodate bawdiness or strong feelings of any other kind. Liberal in spirit, with some upper-class conservative leanings, Bentley roundly detested the Nazis. Yet his clerihew on the subject mocks rather than jeers...
...stray just so far from the serious mien he adopts toward his subjects. He appears reluctant to discuss his personal life, but eager to hold forth on his theories, straightforwardly but not pompously. Clarity, too, seems an Ely hallmark--even an analysis as complex as that of Democracy and Distant comes across clearly and colorfully in his hands, as Ely's occasional asides temper the book's serious analysis...