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...Edmund S. Muskie, LL.D, Senator from Maine. For many of us today he stands in the Government as the very embodiment of human decency...
October 21: Despite Martin Peretz's printed comment that the Democratic National ticket was a sign of "the worst of times" in American politics, vice-presidential candidate Edmund Muskie brought his campaign to Boston. In introducing Muskie to a crowd of 3000 at B.C., John Kenneth Galbraith said that the real election issue was "Richard Nixon--not the new Nixon, not he old Nixon, but the same unreliable Nixon that we have come to know...
...deeply has the campus-violence issue touched the electorate that in a few months Hayakawa has become one of the state's best-known figures. Field found that he had wider recognition than former Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown and former Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch, now President Nixon's Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Further, in a state that has in the past shown hostility to Asians, 82% of the voters said they were "strongly favorable" or "somewhat favorable" to what they have seen of the diminutive Nisei...
...same, Mike Kazin, a top student, is also an angry young man who, among other things, affixed a list of demands to Harvard President Nathan Pusey's front door. Such hard-line methods have increasingly disturbed even the most admiring parents. Says Edmund W. Pugh Jr., a Weyerhaeuser Co. executive whose son was suspended from Stanford after a sit-in: "We have a great feeling of compassion toward David as his idealism clashes with organized society. But I don't approve of their tactics. There is a proper way to express dissent: through the spoken and written word...
Despite such goings-on, at Cornell Nabokov's course in Modern Fiction (also known as Dirty Lit) became famous. Nabokov detested "oldfashioned human interest criticism." It consists, he once reprovingly wrote oldfashioned, human-interest Critic Edmund Wilson, "of removing the characters from an author's imaginary world to the imaginary, but generally far less plausible, world of the critic, who then proceeds to examine these displaced characters as if they were 'real people.'" He refused to deal in such "dreadful things as trends," or offer traditional chatter about themes and schools of literature. Instead, he performed brilliant, instant autopsies...