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...shame that only at the very end of what had been a 321-page neutral magazine article filled with cold description, does Anderson finally take a position and comment on the justified rage we should feel over the marijuana story. Even without commentary we can glean from the accounts of Stroup's exploits that a major miscarriage of justice is being kicked around like any other political football. In fact, High in America will probably appeal to the straight-as-an-arrow gov major who is interested in the story of a political entrepeneur like Keith Stroup...
After the World went bankrupt, Lippmann took up a column at the New York Herald Tribune, expecting to continue for several years at most. He often complained about the life of a columnist, having to glean his thoughts for a deadline when the subject called for considerably more contemplation, and the need to sully some paper when he had nothing to say. But "Today and Tomorrow," which was syndicated to more than 200 newspapers, lasted for 37 years, until Lippmann's retirement during the Vietnam...
Once Epps did glean an "accurate notion" in late May, when he talked to Olive for the first time since the discrepancies had been discovered, he decided not to prosecute the former manager because of "concern for Olive's personal situation." Epps said he learned through discussion with the former manager that Olive was a "drug user," an allegation on which Olive refused to comment this week...
Commenting after Kennedy's speech, Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer Professor of Public Administration, said, "There is damned little that one can glean from afar in this campaign. Nothing has been said about Iran or Afghanistan to speak of in a long time...
...along with one particularly striking lament for Robert Lowell, whom he calls "our night ferry Thudding in the sea." He admires Lowell as one who "drank America/Like the heart's/Iron vodka...," and these lines of veneration acquaint us with Heaney's intrinsic poetic spirit. Like Lowell, he wants to glean all that he can from his environment...