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...tried to drive wedges within the SWP by similar means over doctrinal, racial and sexual issues. They attempted to pit the party and its allies in the civil rights and anti-war movements against one and another. And, as in Bohmer's case, the FBI often stooped to intimidation. By pressuring employers to remove leftists from their staffs, the FBI was able to "separate from their employment" a good number of SWPers, particularly in educational institutions in the South and Southwest...
Another is the addition to his team of Dave Aronson, a freshman who spent last summer work with the late Formula One driver Mark Donohue. Along with two of Medenica's classmates--Fred Boyd and Chris Yerkes--Aronson rounds out what is probably the only all-Harvard pit crew in the SCCA...
This is the gaudy tightrope mode of Wallace Stevens, and few poets since Stevens have been able to escape the pit of arrant gibberish that yawns below. In his eighth volume, Ashbery once again proves that he can. What is striking in his poems is not the absence of simple semantic logic but the implication of a rationality that lies just out of reach. Ashbery makes clear his impatience with simple verisimilitude...
...seconds, pit bosses held the dice at the crap tables; dealers shoed the cards at the 21 games; croupiers stopped the roulette wheels; and the casinos fell silent as players restively eyed their watches and women stared vacantly into their paper cups full of quarters in front of the slots. Sentiment not being a major commodity in Vegas, one man in the Desert Inn muttered when it was over, "Okay, he had his minute. Let's deal...
...When they no longer need me, they will spit me out like a cherry pit," Prince Norodom Sihanouk once said about Cambodia's new Khmer Rouge rulers. Last week the prince's pithy prediction came true. In a radio broadcast, Vice Premier Khieu Samphan, the iron-fisted guerrilla who has ruled the country since the Communist takeover a year ago, announced that Sihanouk had resigned as chief of state, even though he had been reconfirmed in that post by the National Assembly on March 20. Samphan said that the prince, heir to a long line of Khmer royalty...