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HAROLD NICOLSON: THE LATER YEARS, 1945-1962, VOL. III OF DIARIES AND LETTERS, edited by Nigel Nicolson. This third and final installment of Author-Politician Nicolson's sprightly and candid reminiscences clinches his position as the brightest British diarist since Pepys...
...death of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony that might have been Sydney, but was historically Port Jackson, 200 years ago. Young Halloran is a corporal and Roman Catholic who has sworn his conscript's oath to the English and Protestant King, George III. He was once destined for the priesthood, and has a Latinate and God-bedazzled turn of mind. Now he guards felons, argues theology with one, and loves another, who happens to be a servant to the chief of the colony's commissary...
...says McCarthy, "states the problem. Act II deals with the complications, and Act III resolves them. I'm an Act II man. That's where I live-involution and complexity." Franklin Roosevelt, he adds, was another Act II man. Lyndon Johnson is all Act III. "What does history say about the Great Society? What will the future think of Lyndon Johnson...
...poet. Like Benjamin Disraeli, who titillated England with a long series of romantic novels, his art takes added interest from his position. And like Disraeli, who continued to write fiction even while he was Prime Minister, a President McCarthy might find that power would necessarily lead him into Act III...
...mentioned as a contender by any of the news media. The New York Times this morning devoted the second deck of an eight-column headline to the improving chances of Lindsay. Others considered likely by those who didn't know were Sen. Mark Hatfield (Ore.) and Sen. Charles Percy (III...