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...citizenry. In summer, the population swells from 6,000 to some 50,000, and the paper views the comings and goings of these fair-weather residents with a wry Yankee eye. Max Eastman, Saul Bellow, Thomas Hart Benton, James Cagney, Leonard Bernstein are the stuff of summer gossip. Such is its relish for celebrities that the Gazette mixes fact' with fantasy in breezy abandon. One memorable item revealed that "Truman Capote and Geraldine Chaplin have checked into the bridal suite of the Menemsha...
Pavese feared impotence, was never happy in love, and failed for the last time with a young U.S. movie actress. In his suicide note he wrote: "Don't gossip." But of course everyone did-and not, perhaps, simply about the unsuccessful love affair. For Pavese's complex character has left friends and critics guessing ever since. These novels prompt the suspicion that he suffered from a sense of personal inadequacy compounded by postwar disillusionment. He had a Hamlet streak in him too wide to live with...
Another student--the only one of the nine who said he had taken LSD "fairly frequently"--talked at length about what made him retreat to drugs. Planes of talk range from functional, housekeeping exchanges through gossip, banter, ideological disputes, to metaphysical discussions, he said, and it is not difficult for two people to fix themselves at the same point on this scale of conversational levels. But there is another dimension to communication, where mutuality is almost impossible to achieve, he said. That is intimacy, an "ultimate intimacy not obtained by shared confessions of guilts, ambitions, Oedipus complexes, or secrets...
...Evelyn Lincoln's latest memoirs [Feb. 23]. I am ashamed that President Johnson must suffer another unwarranted assault at the hands of those who avow devotion to Kennedy; it seems nothing less than a betrayal of a man who would never have hit another publicly with "locker room" gossip. He gave Khrushchev more dignity than that. It is a pity that President Kennedy's grace and respectful demeanor didn't communicate itself to Mrs. Lincoln...
Gaping Loophole. Skeptics were quick to point out that the Administration had merely denied reports that it had been asked by parties unknown to deploy nuclear weapons; no one specifically repudiated gossip that their use was under consideration by the Pentagon. Nor did General Wheeler ease the skeptics' concern when he was asked at a press conference about using tactical nukes in Viet Nam. Sidestepping the broad question, he repeated: "I do not think that nuclear weapons will be required to defend Khe Sanh." The implication, to many, was that nukes were at least available as a last resort...