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...sure is. Byrd is personally fond of Kennedy: "He's a very attractive person. He's got ability. No question about that." But as a pay-as-you-go Democratic conservative, Byrd is unalterably opposed to many of Kennedy's big-spending, big-Government programs. And as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Byrd can give the Administration fits...
...Charlie Bartlett. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Spaulding. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Evans Jr.. Sir David and Lady Ormsby-Gore. Senator and Mrs. John Sherman Cooper (he is a Republican, but Lorraine Cooper is expert at holding the intimate, 20-person, candlelight parties that the New Society is fond of). Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Alsop. William Walton. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fay. the Radziwills. Mrs. John R. Fell. Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. T. Smith. Next come some of the Administration's working stiffs: Defense Secretary and Mrs. Robert McNamara. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. the Walt...
Critics, says Walter Jackson Bate, are most fond of authors with complex styles. By this standard Horace is the perfect subject, since an inflected language gave him almost total liberty with word placement, and an ingrown poetic tradition furnished him with limitless chances for allusion. Commager nimbly unravels the syntax and shows how it functions artistically, indeed visually, throughout the odes. He is extremely alert to Horace's sophisticated manipulstion of such literary conventions as the pastoral and the spring song. Horace, as Commager proves, used these stock patterns as the basis for subtle and ambivalent statements about love...
...deals with Love, Marriage, and money, with the emphasis where it belongs. Sandra Prutting and Jacqueline Tabachnick are both winning as they lay their claims on M. Mills (who is losing his heart and 200,000 francs). But he takes it well, because the French are a gay people, fond of dancing and light wines...
Also: the William Harris Arnold and Gertude Weld Arnold award to Brian C. Stock , income from the fund, for an essay entitled "Hours in an Italian Library ;" and the Ruskin prize, to Rev. Henry A. Kelly , income from the fond, for an essay entitled "The Devil in John Ruskin...