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...William Steig's "Dreams of Glory." Clearly, Billy's imagination has been spoon-fed and molded from childhood by radio, telly, and newsreels: it is, alack, the imagination of his whole generation--as trite and enfeebled as the bourgeois lives around him. Chained in Alger-like dreams of limitless possibility, Billy never learns this fatal secret...
JAMES FORRESTAL, by Arnold A. Rogow. Except for some weirdly psychoanalytical conclusions, this is a careful biography of the U.S.'s first Secretary of Defense, a brilliant, mercurial man whose drive and ambition were limitless but whose Irish soul floundered in despond...
...start of the work Quentin says, "With all this darkness, the truth is that every morning when I awake, I'm full of hope." At the end he concludes that unbounded love is not the whole answer, either: "Whoever goes to save another person with the lie of limitless love throws a shadow on the face of God." But at least "it does seem feasible not to be afraid. Perhaps it's all one has." Thereupon, Quentin once more goes forth to try, with Holga; and, appropriately, the play's final word is "Hello...
Many people had great hopes for Mary McCarthy's new novel. Literary gossip columns began talking about it more than a year ago. The plot structure was ingenious, almost limitless in its potential. Through the lives of eight members of the Vassar class of 1933 (her own class), Miss McCarthy would call forth the New York of the '30's, the New York she lived in as a member of the left-wing crowd gathered around the new journal Partisan Review...
...budget deliberately in deficit by at least $10 billion. "There is just not enough money in the world to relieve the poverty of all the millions of this world who may be threatened by Communism," Kennedy said about foreign economic aid as a Congressman. "Our resources are not limitless. Mere grants of money are debilitating and wasteful." Last month, when the House cut his foreign aid requests by $1 billion, Kennedy denounced the action as "shortsighted, irresponsible and dangerously partisan." Since the book is fat and heavy, an unsuspecting purchaser might think that it contains a rational evaluation of Kennedy...