Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOYCE GARY, by Malcolm Foster. The discontent of the artist in organized society emerges as the major theme in this first full-scale biography of the late author of such novels as The Horse's Mouth and Herself Surprised...
Perhaps the most impressive fact about that leadership was that it moved so affirmatively in so many directions. It made a conciliatory bow to Europe, as to an old friend whose acquaintance has been all too neglected of late. It spoke soothingly, but with extreme correctness, in the direction of the Russians, inviting them to begin a new chapter in Soviet-American relations. As for the U.S., the Administration displayed determination to heal old wounds while it contemplated new ventures...
...latest weapon in the campaign is this handbook, published late last December. The book makes no pretensions of literary sparkle or cohesion; guessing that politicians and journalists would rather develop their own cases against the planes, Shurcliffe merely presents a barrage of facts in 30 short chapters. But the facts, of course, cannot be neutral, and what emerges from the handbook is an impressive condemnation of the whole SST project...
...better to give up what's been invested than to throw away any more. To that end, he spends many pages trying to prove that the SST will be obsolete before it is built. His argument here probably got a boost when the Russians unveiled their prototype SST late last fall; but even that has caused a semi-backlash, as a few Congressmen have urged the U.S. to step up its race to beat the Russians to the boom...
...summary of the traditional reportage. It is exciting to view a presidential campaign from that rat-race of a pressure box--the press bus or plane. The daily wanderings of Robert Kennedy, while fascinating for trivia buffs and future students of the style of American political life in the late 1960's, just aren't of over-riding import when one is trying to understand the nature of that brief and turbulent campaign of last spring. Witcover mentions the commercial TV campaign twice--and then only in passing...