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Previous summers, distant and recent, have also been heavy with news. The two World Wars and the Korean conflict, for instance, all started during the warm months. Last summer it was the Middle East skyjackings. In 1969 there was a news eruption: the first moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the original Woodstock, the Sharon Tate murders, the death of Ho Chi Minh. The year before that, the Democrats, the police and the protesters had their uproar in Chicago, L.B.J. nominated his old friend Abe Fortas for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Russians marched on Prague...
...only do we not meet friends regularly at funerals, we hardly see them at all. Who has time, with all the American tourists flooding the country? In one week last month, nine relatives from the U.S., four close friends and two friends of distant cousins were in Israel. With jumbo jets disgorging hundreds at a time, and more than 100 flights per day going in and out, Transport Minister Shimon Peres complains, "We prepared for 3,000 tourists a day. We did not expect 10,000." Tourism in the occupied territories, from
...have reversed roles. Before Burns became head of the Fed, he earned a reputation for being impatient, arrogant, distant. Practically nobody called him by his first name. He was intensely loyal to Nixon, remained his chief economic adviser during the dark years of the mid-1960s, ran his campaign task forces in the 1968 campaign. In policy matters, Candidate Nixon often told lieutenants: "Check it out with Arthur...
...memory of her Tattile, as her foster parents called Pound, is of a pair of shiny shoes she was not allowed to touch. On another visit, alarmed at her farm-girl fingernails and unbrushed teeth, Tattile bought her a toothbrush and personally gave her a manicure. Mamile was more distant, "an incomprehensible entity with a grudge . . . as though I were permanently doing her wrong...
...went on for hours." Pound was often severe with Mary. When she was still quite small, he drafted an elaborate table of "Laws for Maria." Item: "If she suffers, it is her own fault for not understanding the universe." But on the whole, he was a really nice if distant dad. He bought the child a small flock of sheep, and became her silent partner in a tiny bee-raising business; many of these episodes, mentioned obscurely in The Cantos, are here explained in full. In Venice he walked her all over town and fed her gooey Italian goodies...