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...quadruply removed, adrift, isolated: a German-speaking Jew living in Prague in the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, emotionally overpowered by his father. Interesting, if futile, critical combats have been waged over the question of whether Kaf ka was merely a talented neurotic or a visionary genius. Edmund Wilson wrote in 1950: "Kafka is being wildly overdone . . . The trouble with Kafka was that he could never let go of the world-of his family, of his job, of his yearning for bourgeois happiness-in the interest of divine rev elation, and that you cannot have a first-rate saint...
...Critic Edmund Wilson once rhetorically inquired: "Have we ever turned out anything that was comparable artistically to the best German or Russian films?" Few disagreed with his answer: "I can think of nothing except Charlie Chaplin, who is his own producer and produces simply himself...
...impressive. Among the artists and poets, actors and statesmen, comics and scientists who were only children: Ann-Margret, Ansel Adams, Hannah Arendt, Charles Baudelaire, Willy Brandt, Arthur Burns, Richard Daley, Indira Gandhi, Elvis Presley, Richard Pryor, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Renata Tebaldi, Queen Victoria, Mary Wells, Jonathan Winters, Edmund Wilson. The trouble is, one could easily draw up at least as impressive a litany of luminaries who had brothers and sisters. Let's see, there was Moses, Milton, Napoleon...
Like Giaimo in the House, Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, tried to keep appropriations for the SBA farm loans to the original $750 million budget. But he was overpowered by Senators with large constituencies of farmers-ironically including a number of anti-Big Government, pro-free enterprise conservatives like South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Georgia's Sam Nunn...
...first time Critic Edmund Wilson visited Brooklyn, he found "a whole new world, which seemed to me inexplicably attractive ... There was space and ocean air and light, and what seemed to me?it was what most astonished me?an atmosphere of freedom and leisure quite unknown on the other side." That description was published 35 years ago. Today, life for many of Brooklyn's 2.4 million inhabitants has taken an all too familiar urban turn. Tales of metropolitan life that came from three Brooklyn neighborhoods last week...