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...agreed to the Johnson plan. For the Republicans Knowland named New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Minnesota's Ed Thye, Connecticut's William Purtell and Arizona's Barry Goldwater. The Senate approved the select committee investigation by a vote of 79-1 (North Dakota's maverick Republican Bill Langer) and authorized $350,000 for the job. Said Johnson: "I believe that the members selected for the committee will do their jobs in their own way, according to their best judgment, and"-adding a broad verbal wink-"I am hopeful that the job they do will meet...
...conscience of his generation," British Critic V. S. Pritchett called Brit ish Novelist George Orwell (who died in 1950). Orwell was a maverick radical who attacked his old friends of the left with as much ferocity as new, would-be friends of the right. In the U.S., he is best known for Animal Farm, the best anti-Communist satire yet written, and that nightmare about Big Brother, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Keep the Aspidistra Flying-which appeared in England in 1936 but has never before been published in the U.S., is a sharply satirical attack on the left-wing intellectuals...
...this early novel, Maverick Orwell was gritty, growling, commonsensical and touching. He grew more bitter later on, for he never wrote a basically kinder or more human novel...
Although the Trib still hews to its maverick politics, blasting both the Democrats and the Republicans and taking off after many of its old whipping boys, its running battle with the 20th century in general has started to subside. There is also more humor and less soapboxing on the editorial page. Says Managing Editor Don Maxwell, editorial boss of the triumvirate that now runs the paper (TIME, April 18), "I always hate to do anything that changes a policy of the Colonel's, but I have to make up my own mind...
Nine Rivers from Jordan is the strange and tempestuous tale of how Irishman Denis Johnston, war correspondent and scholar, maverick and mystic, fulfilled the dragoman's prophecy in three years of bitter fighting that carried him and his BBC microphones from the Jordan to the Danube. Half-diary and half-confession, it is a story of one man's war, but with this difference: where others wrote of battles with an end in view-victory-Johnston was an outsider, an Irish will-o'-the-wisp who happened in on the holocaust not caring-at first...