Word: polis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a top scholar and captain of the basketball team at the University of Arizona. To put himself through the university law school, he played pro basketball for two years ("He has a basketball player's elbows," says a Congressman, referring to Mo's aggressive poli tical tactics). Udall practiced law in Tucson until his older brother Stewart gave up his congressional seat to become President Kennedy's Secretary of the Interior. Then, in a 1961 special election, Mo replaced Stewart...
...turn greeted the book with the immortal tribute "Oh, wow!"), made many readers wonder if the magazine had suffered a touch of sclerosis. The frontispiece, "Talk of the Town," turned suddenly from boutique prattle to sometimes perceptive, some times ponderous essays about Nixon, Watergate, Cambodia, Agnew or poli tics in general. The New Yorker's sol emn discovery of causes was often over bearing and relentless. Indeed, Critic Philip Nobile, in his journalistic study Intellectual Skywriting, found the mag azine a prime exemplar of radical chic...
...FRED S. POLI...
Barth's Perseus is twenty years past the glorious days of the slaying of Medusa--he is impotent, his wife sleeps around. Pegasus can no longer fly and Bellerophon has become a professor of literature. Barth's heroes have unheroic self-doubts, think dirty thoughts, study poli sci and get high on hippomenes. Zeus, in the form of a high school drop-out, rapes unsuspecting women and Bellerophon is dismissed by all as another quack would-be hero. Heroic love is forever lost in the sexual profusion and confusion of these post-Freudian ancient Greeks...