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...boss, Alice M. Rivlin, 46. When she came to the Hill as the first head of Congress's budget bureau in 1975, she had been a highly regarded working economist at that liberal Democratic enclave, the Brookings Institution. Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, personally steered her into the job. Now some of his-and her-colleagues in both parties wish her four-year term could be cut short...
...sometimes more important than the ecology. In response, the House has passed an amendment to the 1970 act that seriously undermines the nation's clean-air standards, while the Senate favors legislation that holds the environmental lines. So wide is the gulf that Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, a principal author of the original bill, fears a long, hot summer. Says he: "Reaching agreement will test the legislative process to its limit." The main areas of dispute...
Vladimir Nabokov has lived all his adult life as an endangered (and dangerous) species. Woe unto the literary pretender who does not get his facts and grammar straight. Titled men of letters must be particularly careful. Edmund Wilson audaciously questioned Nabokov's Russian and was mauled by return mail. Critic George Steiner was the victim of one of the neatest decapitations in literary history. Responding to a generously appreciative essay, Nabokov wrote that "Mr. Steiner's article ("Extraterritorial") is built on solid abstractions and opaque generalizations. A few specific items can be made out and should be corrected...
...emigre energies and talents after the war began. Nabokov's love affair with America, his teaching experiences at Wellesley and Cornell, and his success with Lolita are covered in more detail than most readers may care to absorb. But Nabokov's friendship and celebrated squabble with Edmund Wilson are sensitively yet amusingly rendered...
...raised them higher still: the House committee put wheat at $3.00, the Senate at $3.10. Last week the Senate approved its more generous Farm Bill by a lopsided margin of 69 to 18-more than the two-thirds that would be necessary to override a presidential veto. Maine Senator Edmund Muskie complained that the bill would add $8 billion to the budget during the next four years...