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...Formless and confusing as the campaign was, neither party underestimated the importance of the outcome. If they were to have much hope for 1968, the Republicans had to regain most of the 38 House seats they lost in 1964, pick up a couple of governorships and perform well in the contests for some 6,800 state legislative seats. Otherwise, as House Minority Leader Jerry Ford put it, "there won't be anybody who will want" the Republican presidential nomination. Lyndon Johnson insisted bravely that a loss of 40 or 50 House seats would not "adversely affect the Government program...
...short, fat, gap-toothed, messy, and, according to one contemporary, had "the face of a pantler, the general look of a cobbler, the girth of a barrelmaker, the manners of a hatter." Estimates of his work were hardly more flattering: Sainte-Beuve dismissed his style as "prolix and formless, slack." The author of La Comédie Humaine, that panorama of post-revolutionary France, died up to his chins in debt to his mother, wife, sister, mistress, gardener and the village constable in Ville-d'Avray. Now the world stands heavily in Balzac's debt...
...reader "Platz means place in Jewish and German. It also means to burst." "The Mexican Pony Rider" is also a pseudonym; behind it, an unnamed juvenile delinquent prowls Manhattan, fancying himself a blend of pony-express rider ("Nothing bugged them") and Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! These formless reveries might make source material for an analyst, who is paid to listen...
...prominently absent. The Advocate too often wallows in flat prose and free poetry, modes that were once, long ago, refreshing but are now, in less expert hands, stale and tired. In this issue, flat means not spare but listless, even flabby, and free means not spontaneous and natural but formless, thoughtless, and overly moody...
When God set about to create heaven and earth-the world being then a formless waste, with darkness over the seas and only an awesome wind sweeping over the water-God said, "Let there be light." And there was light...