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...from Irving's talents as a fabricator, all else followed. Long before Hemingway, Mark Twain's Nigger Jim knew that the Hemingway hero is not to be defined in terms of yachts and blondes. "Trash," said Jim, "is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's." Otto Friedrich
...nowhere-partly because Bonner had no success trying to demonstrate the superiority of the aboriginal product. At a press showing in Canberra, he scaled a boomerang that got stuck in a tree; the embarrassed Senator had to shinny up to retrieve it. In other words, the demonstration-er- boomeranged...
...more formal climes of Washington, D.C., he is regarded as a strong opponent of the war and Pentagon overspending, and has helped press for stiff -er environmental and consumer protection. Now 42, Eagleton has two children, Terry, 13, and Christin, 9, and a wife who figures to be an effective as well as a decorative addition to the campaign. When he was elected to the Senate, Eagleton announced: "I want to be regarded as a great United States Senator. I'd like to be re-elected three terms, acquire some seniority, get some good committees and hear James Reston...
...does not want to forfeit all the credits he has built up within the party. While endorsing neither McGovern nor Nixon, he will play his own game, aimed at helping local Democratic candidates who stand clos er to him than to McGovern. Particularly in areas where the party's pro-busing platform will be a burden, candidates may call on Wallace. He fully expects McGovern to lose badly; then he hopes the party will be restructured more to his taste...
...Seeing his existence threatened by "little things-errors of judgment, but never crimes" -Bogus begins identifying with Akthelt, the heroic warrior and lover in Akthelt and Gunnel-an absurd Old Low Norse epic he is translating for his doctoral thesis. And when Akthelt is told "Det henskit of krig er tu overleve" ('The object of war is to survive it"), Trumper thinks: "Which struck me as the object of graduate school-and possibly my marriage...