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Last week as the black-tied diners talked of politics in the President's gleaming white study, Manhattan Lawyer Tom Dewey seemed to be presenting arguments on both sides of the case. Dewey dwelt at length on reasons why the President should seek reelection. His arguments were easily boiled down: the party, the country and the world need Ike. But when he turned to his other favorite topic, Citizen Dewey could not refrain from describing the pleasures of a man who chooses not to run again. Since he stepped out of the governor's office in Albany...
...first Whig was the devil!" exclaimed Dr. Samuel Johnson in 1778. The good Tory doctor had reason to be vehement, for nothing like the Whig aristocracy had existed in England before. Whig families owned most of the land, dwelt in "homes with 60 bedrooms," gambled away whole fortunes in a night, and lived and governed England with "an animal recklessness at once terrifying and exhilarating." Whig men believed that chastity was a dangerous thing; it gave a man the gout, they said. Fortunately, Whig women did their best to keep the boys gout-free...
...Turgenev (Fathers and Sons, On the Eve, Rudin), with the vital difference that he spent a lifetime analyzing and fighting it. Too gentle to be as dogmatic as the proud Tolstoy, too rebellious to accept the resignation of Dostoevsky, Turgenev made his place in literature as a genius who dwelt in a house divided against itself, half slave and half free...
...speeches made on the same day last week to audiences some 20 miles apart, the heads of two branches of the U.S. Government, the President and the Chief Justice, dwelt on a fundamental series of relationships between God, order, freedom and peace...
...Nobel Prize speech, Novelist William Faulkner made much of the "agony and sweat" that went into his writing. He might, with equal pertinence, have dwelt on the agony and sweat that he requires of his readers. To his admirers, a new Faulkner novel is the event of the year. To the plain reader it is a tortuous chore which pays off only in random flashes of greatness, some of it so illuminating as to make the ill-lighted drudgery seem worthwhile. This week, after nine years of "anguish and travail," Faulkner unveils A Fable. It is a major effort...