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...conclusion: Job's "tragedy was that of the happy ending." That sort of throwaway irony seems worthier of an Oscar Wilde epigram than a meditation on a profound theme. The Book of Job has haunted writings as disparate as Mark Twain's novel The Mysterious Stranger, Robert Frost's verse drama A Masque of Reason and Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. It requires more than bursts of wit and flashes of illumination...
Should I offer you wishes? Poets have done that for their children from time to time. In Frost at Midnight Coleridge wishes his son Hartley a life surrounded by nature. I could wish the same for you, though I have less trust in nature's benevolence...
After the anticipation of the pre-invasion weeks, the great battle "seemed almost anticlimactic," recalls Kathleen Frost, who as a clerk typed up some of the D-day orders. Today the beaches, lanes and fields of southern England are quiet again, ever-present plaques the prime mementos of the frenzied activity of 40 years ago. American ex-G.I.s sometimes visit, walk those familiar streets, stay the night. But the atmosphere cannot be recreated: the girls, the buddies, the excitement, all are gone. The old soldiers take solace in memory, and in the wonderful glow of victory...
Hart is aiming for "young Democratic activists," says Coordinator Pouland. Working with Dallas Congressman Martin Frost, Hart's state chairman, Pouland has helped place operatives in the half of the state's 6,600 precincts that contains 90% of the vote. They are concentrating especially on sprawling West Texas, where, says Pouland, "anti-Mondale feeling is pretty strong." Hart wants to revive his New Hampshire touch by warming up to voters through small, personal meetings, a difficult task for a shy, cool man, and by stressing his independence from special interests. At a barbecue last week in Amarillo...
When British Talk Show Host David Frost recorded five interview programs with former President Richard Nixon in 1977, CBS News refused to bid for the broadcast rights, preferring to avoid disputes over "checkbook journalism." Last week, however, CBS News acknowledged that it has bought, for a reported $500,000, the rights to 38 hours of taped conversation between Nixon and a former White House aide, Frank Gannon, who helped Nixon write his memoirs. The footage will be edited into three 30-minute segments that will air next month, two on 60 Minutes and one on a forthcoming magazine show, American...