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Potshots, Helter-Skelter...
...office of the U.S. presidency is becoming a target at which all manner of men are taking potshots, helter-skelter. I see inherent in all this a cancerous growth that could spread and stifle the true spirit of Americanism-which embodies constructive criticism, yes, but which also is based on sober consideration, mutual understanding and due respect for another person's judgment...
Newman writes that "The collection is a miscellany because I have miscellaneous interests, yet it is not altogether helter-skelter. Perhaps the title, which, I will not deny, gave some difficulty, is reasonably descriptive." It is, and the two volumes are also largely descriptive writing. What will make a reader uneasy are the occasional flirts with analysis and elliptical judgments: these offer unblushingly direct ideas of what Newman's interests mean to him but an oblique and unsatisfactory view of his criteria of judgment on men of science...
...Harvard-Penn game last year was a shellacking that the Quakers are trying hard to forget. They never stood a chance, as Crimson backs ran helter-skelter through the weak Red defense, shaming the Philadelphia team...
Major William Mandeville Peareth Kincaid Lennox has never bought a work of art in his life; yet he owns one of England's more romantic collections. He inherited more than 90 paintings that hang helter-skelter in ill-lit confusion in the library and the drafty halls of Downton Castle. Ten years ago, the major wired the castle for electricity, and now a TV set sits smack beneath Rembrandt's Flight into Egypt. A caged budgerigar chirps beneath Rembrandt's The Cradle. In addition, there is a Van Dyck ("A lovely one of a galloping horse," says...