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Snyder, who has worked as a logger, forester, carpenter and seaman and lived in Japan for ten years, is now residing in the California mountains. The poet was appointed to the California Council of the Arts by Gov. Edmund G. Brown...
...stumble over his own piety. His statement showed a certain insularity in his thinking-a narrow outlook rather than a broad one. If the mistake had come earlier, before his primary victories, it could have been ruinous. Many people are already likening it, despite significant differences, to Edmund Muskie's crying in 1972, or George Romney's 'brainwashing' in 1968." As it is, Carter was badly damaged, and his road to recovery may be long and painful...
...GOOD REMINDER FOR the 38-year old Perfect Master of California, Edmund G. Brown Jr., that in his state, hardly anyone ever dies a natural political death. The state "so blessed in climate" makes candidates flourish with the crazy progress of hothouse roses, then collapse and disintegrate with the frightening speed of a time-lapse photographic sequence...
...names of the men who were attracted to Marxism in their youth during the twenties and thirties reads almost like a roster of influential thinkers in modern America: Daniel Boorstin, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Ernest Hemingway, Edmund Wilson, Granville Hicks, Reinhold Niebuhr, Daniel Aaron, and Murray Kempton, to name a few. Most of them ended up as respectable liberals. But even more intriguing than these liberals are those ex-Marxists who made a complete about-face, ending up as right-wingers. Smaller in number, they have been at least as important to conservatives as the others have been to liberal...
More often than not, Diggins prefers the easy, superficial one-liner to the serious argument. He quotes Edmund Wilson's succinct and moronic explanation of Dos Passos' conversion: "On account of Soviet Knavery/He favors restoring slavery." and asks "Fair or foul?" The reader can almost hear Diggins giggling in self-satisfied delight. Elsewhere he is simply pretentious. In an account of Buckley's attempts to reconcile Catholic theology with free-market economic precepts, Diggins intones solemnly, "Indeed conservatism, capitalism, and Christianity present an impossible synthesis." His penchant for constant alliteration, even when it requires the use of inappropriate words...