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...gentlemanly metaphors but without much crispness of language. His Collected Poems 1944-1979 is, as any bag of 35 years' worth of anything has every right to be, a bit of a hodge podge. There are some prematurely-greying early works of some elegance, rather reminiscent of early Philip Larkin or John Wain ("Belgian Winter," "Retrospect"); there is some doggerel ("Fair Shares for All"); there is some sophomoric drivel ("Toys," "Report"); there are fine things ("Science Fiction," "A Song of Experience"--the latter with witty, well-crafted verses like "He tried all colours, white and black, and coffee/Though quite...
...working for the campaign of John Anderson. This is not because, as your article suggests, we are "exhausted from the Kennedy push." In fact, many of us have worked, since the Democratic convention, on the campaigns of various progressive candidates, including Massachusetts Congressman James Shannon; Thomas Larkin, County Commissioner-elect of Middlesex County; and Alexander Bok, candidate for Massachusetts state representative...
...Thomas Larkin appears to have won his bid for a Democratic nomination for a county commissioner seat, but his plans to abolish county government will probably be blocked by incumbent Michael McLaughlin, who picked up the nomination for the other county commissioner opening in last night's primary...
...Larkin and Ralph ran neck and neck in front throughout most of Cambridge...
Should Thomas Larkin unseat incumbent Michael McLaughlin in the race for county commissioner, he might be able to start on his promised campaign to wipe out county government--a bureaucratic sinkhole useful only as a source of patronage jobs. But electing Larkin is not enough--voters would also have to support incumbent S. Lester Ralph for the other open seat if they hope for reform, not so much because he is a progressive but because he is less regressive than McLaughlin. Currently under scrutiny for possible election law fraud, McLaughlin deserves nothing so little as another chance to play fast...