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Speeches like this bring pro-Goldwater audiences to their feet, stamping and screaming themselves hoarse with "We want Barry. We want Barry." Nelson Rockefeller's audiences react to their candidate more calmly. But there is a noticeable difference in the kind of people at Rockefeller's ratties. In Concord, Goldwaters audience consisted mostly of very old and very young people. The audience also seemed, by clothes and manners, to be a mixture of those with a great deal of money and those with almost none...
...Spears book cannot be classified with the kind of critical biography Richard Ellman achieved in his brilliant "Yeats--the Man and the Masks," it equally fails to react with the alive sensitivity to the poetry itself that Reuben Brower demonstrates in "The Poetry of Robert Frost--Constellations of Intention." Spears has just as many cross-references as Brower, and he seems to know the poetry, just as well. But criticism of poetry, if it isn't dynamic and fascinating, makes some of the stickiest, dullest reading on the shelf. His cataloguing approach to Auden overwhelms Spears' writing from time...
...stiff note protesting the U.S.'s "gross provocation," Russian MIG fighters had been sent up to intercept the wandering T-39. The MIGs, claimed the Russians, had signaled with conventional "follow-me" wigwags, and followed that with a warning burst of gunfire. When the T-39 "did not react," said the note, the fighters were "forced to undertake measures" to protect East German airspace...
...absurd beliefs . . . Christian science . . . occultism . . . yogi . . . Greek sandals . . . table-tipping." Two critics pass the ill-matched pair. "Ha, ha," they gibe, "still discussing The Golden Fruits?" Translated into Sarrautese, this sally means: "Poor creatures, incapable of grasping, dissecting anything delicate . . . trusting only in their instinct, which immediately makes them react to what is 'true,' 'beautiful,' 'alive' as they say, like puppies that lie on their backs and whimper at the mere sound of a caressing voice...
...their greatest political leader a man who loves the language and can use it. And what they deserved they, in this instance, happily obtained." Kennedy's election, says Shannon, represented an Irish coming of age in America. Never again will the Irish be able to feel, or react, like an oppressed minority...