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...ready to talk on any subject, without whispering in an aide's ear or thumbing through her notes. She has, some McGovern staffers ruefully admit, perhaps a better grasp of her husband's positions than his own official running mate Sargent Shriver; but then, she has been at it longer than Sarge...
Like most journalists who visited Biafra, De St. Jorre pays tribute to the courage and resourcefulness of the Ibos. He describes one village of 300 people that moved en masse seven times in two years. But he was equally impressed with the Ibos' uncanny grasp of propaganda. One day they might take foreign visitors on "the starvation tour." The next day, while trying to demonstrate that Biafra was stable enough to merit international recognition, they might show off their schools, their courtrooms presided over by periwigged judges, and the immaculate lawn of State House...
...Jencks is not optimistic about the possibility for reform of radical changes. The educational institutions of America have too firm a grasp on the peoples' minds, and the political climate in the country is not ripe for dramatic change. Nevertheless, Jencks sets forth the conditions he feel are necessary for the radical transformation...
...patterns smacked of phoniness, the impact of his work would fade quickly. But his achievement seems more impressive upon each rereading of his book. In fact, the skill in constructing poems to intense despite their apparent simplicity belies the feeling that he has done something within any observer's grasp. By producing a compassionate work whose success in conveying the day-to-day feel of the Vietnam experience is so unique, Casey has indeed earned a place as a poet to be watched...
Like many another evangelical Christian, Kenneth Taylor liked to gather his family round him after dinner in their Wheaton, Ill., farmhouse for evening prayer and a bit of Bible reading. The trouble was, Taylor observed some years ago, that his children could not quickly grasp the archaic English of the King James Bible. An ordained minister who was then director of the fundamentalist Moody Press in Chicago, Taylor decided to try paraphrasing the Scriptures for his youngsters-an experiment to which the children-then numbering nine-quickly responded...