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There are many reasons why Carter's rise stands as such a remarkable political feat. When he was walking the icy streets of New Hampshire last January, as many as 40% of the local people did not even know who he was. He occupied no political office; his one term as Georgia's Governor had ended in January 1975, and state law kept him from running again. He was the typical outsider, and it was an axiom of politics that outsiders?particularly those from the South?went nowhere nationally...
...Adulthood in American Literature," Kenneth Lynn considerably raises the level of prose in the issue with some nicely turned phrases describing maturity in writing. But this feat is accomplished at the expense of any relevance the article may have to the issue of literature generally. One gets the feeling that Lynn did not want to write about Dadalus's topic of adulthood and anxiously strayed into personal idiosyncracies. His essay expands into a kind of literary dumping ground for odd reflections on random groups and individuals: teenagers, Margaux Hemingway, the frontier. When he does attempt to make a point...
...shaken by his wife Leonora's grisly and easily forestalled death, enters into an affair with Paola, a young, trendy Italian photographer who astonishingly remembers Beard's name after having seen it in movie credits. (The dust jacket informs us that Paola's photographs "adorn the book," quite a feat for a fictional character and no doubt a surprise to photographer David Robinson.) All is fine and dandy between the two, as uncovered in some badly written bedroom scenes, until Paola must leave Rome, where most of the novel is set, for the Mideast. There, she is to photograph...
...forget the 1971 season when under an indigo October sky Paul Kaliades connected on a field goal with seconds showing on the clock to bring the Lions back from the precipice of defeat against Princeton. Kaliades then repeated the feat against Dartmouth to pull out a 31-29 win from the Ivy League champs...
...recommends, for instance, that "whenever there is a woman in a biblical passage, retell the story from her point of view." Example: in the story of Moses, do not dwell simply on his feat of leading the Israelites out of Egypt; consider also the courage shown by Moses' mother and sister in saving his life when he was newborn...