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...every step in the 34-year-old Dean's brief career as a lawyer and Government official, associates recount similar experiences. Loyalty, in fact, is most often cited to explain his meteoric rise to counsel to the President -and his presence at the heart of the Watergate scandal. Since his precipitous fall from grace, however, other past colleagues have revealed glimpses of Dean's darker side. Some find him lacking in strong principles; others consider him overwhelmed by ambition. Declares one rather caustically: "He's a good moth. He knows how to find the light...
Weeks yesterday asked for a recount of the ballots cast in his race, finding it hard to accept his losing margin of 1522 votes. Unofficial figures showed Studds on top by 117,722 votes to Weeks' 116,465, severing a long Republican hold on the seat...
...margin, O'Donnell is willing to let McGovern have New York City. "All we want to do is hold McGovern to a 400,000 vote plurality in New York City," O'Donnell told me. "But," he said puckishly, "if we do carry the city, I won't demand a recount...
...bulk of the book concentrates on Solzhenitsyn since the early '60's. The authors focus on how he reaches the public: through bureaucratic labyrinths, through the even more nebulous and confused channels of samizdat (reproduction of manuscripts on typewriters and mimeograph machines), and through publication abroad. They also recount his personal harassment by authorities, his brief spell in political favor, and his more recent pronouncements on behalf of human rights in the Soviet Union...
Those skeptical of Casey's craft might argue that his reliance of dialect is a mere trick, that anyone with his eyes and ears open for a few years in Vietnam could capture and same idiosyncrasies and recount the same stories, that one work is not enough to establish Casey as a poet to be reckoned with. I would disagree. If his obsession with speech patterns smacked of phoniness, the impact of his work would fade quickly. But his achievement seems more impressive upon each rereading of his book. In fact, the skill in constructing poems to intense despite their...