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...Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young,” with its tragic but heroic, laurel-crowned youth, is the poem that springs to mind when one think of Paul, and anyone who knew him should read it. Another poem by Pablo Neruda also recalls him to me. The poem contrasts a bright bunch of yellow flowers with the endless sea, and describes how one’s eye is drawn away from the sea’s deepness and vastness to the explosive, earth-bound beauty of the flowers. After...
...allowed the President to claim magnanimity for allowing opposition parties more time to prepare for the contest. It was flexibility he could well afford: last week Marcos' civilian opponents appeared to be more deeply divided than ever. Only days after leading Opposition Figures Corazon ("Cory") Aquino and Salvador ("Doy") Laurel made a public display of their solidarity against Marcos, it seemed they were about to split over the issue of who should run against the President...
Aquino's shifting position seemed to disconcert Laurel, whose United Nationalist Democratic Organization holds 37 of the 59 opposition seats in the National Assembly. The former senator declared himself a presidential candidate last June. Some form of Aquino-Laurel ticket has long been considered a strong combination, but Laurel, who turned 57 last week, has frequently, if somewhat unconvincingly, said he would step aside should another figure be chosen...
Apparently stung by what he considered favoritism shown to Aquino among opposition leaders, Laurel abruptly demanded the resignation of Cecilia Munoz Palma, 73, head of the twelve-party organization known as the National Unification Committee, a body charged with hammering out the opposition ticket. Fumed Laurel: "You have shown partiality. You are a dictator. Why don't you resign now?" Munoz Palma complied, declaring, "I can now really speak my mind on who can lead the Filipino people." The two later made up, but by then a seven-party coalition had formed to press for Aquino's candidacy...
Susan K. has a good job, sturdy feminist principles and no interest, at the moment, in getting married. She also has a married lover, which makes her the prototype of The New Other Woman in Sociologist Laurel Richardson's book of that name (Free Press; $17.95). The old-fashioned mistress was usually depicted as a skulking and tragically trapped figure, racked by guilt. The newer version, born of feminism and the sexual revolution, says Richardson, is more blas and confident about her life. "First of all, she doesn't want to get married, doesn't want to husband-steal," Richardson...