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...Carrè tells about that journey through nothingness with the same clean, tough style that he mastered in his earlier works-a lucid grasp on the physical and emotional landscapes that allows him the occasional power of poetic insight...
...occasion, the Nixon machine produces a lucid, well-reasoned statement that goes beyond the routine demands of vote gathering. One such was his radio address last week on the office of the presidency. Delivered over about 500 NBC and CBS stations, it was one of the best speeches either candidate has made so far during the campaign...
...flat and ambled over to the student-occupied Théátre de L'Odéon. There he listened with amused interest as youthful nihilists denounced the entire span of French history as irrelevant. Their harsh judgment did not surprise him. In five slim volumes of pel lucid, painfully distilled essays, Rumanian-born Philosopher E. M. Cioran, 57, has argued the terrible futility of human history. More originally than any other living thinker, he has defined the case for total pessimism. "Human history is an immense cul-de-sac," he says. "For me, life is a passionate emptiness...
...years, the reporting and commentary on international and British politics in the London Economist has been lucid, thoughtful, urbane and wryly detached. That spirit was hardly reflected on the cover, which, as with most British weeklies, merely offered some text and a partial table of contents. Nowadays the covers rank among the wittiest anywhere...
Activist Tradition. There is no compulsory retirement for a Supreme Court Justice, and Warren, at 77, could have remained active as long as health and spirit lasted. Mr. Justice Holmes was writing lucid decisions in his 90s; Justice Hugo Black shows few signs of faltering at 82. Warren apparently wanted to retire while his physical and mental abilities were still keen. Moreover, he was eager to enable President Johnson, a personal friend, to name a new Chief Justice who would follow in the liberal, activist tradition...