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...elegiac title poem Westward is about another journey, from London's Euston Station by rail toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Contemplating Margaret Thatcher's England, she reflects on the "frayed-/ out gradual of the retreat from empire." The Prairie is a reverie, expressed with extreme simplicity, on the peregrinations of her forebears from the Midwest to California and back again. "To be landless, half a nomad, nowhere wholly/ at home, is to discover, now, an epic theme/ in going back," she concludes. Clampitt is wisest when she is plainest. At her best, she writes poetry that, in Marianne Moore...
...first fires broke out that same night, and new ones kept starting. The victorious Napoleon offered peace; the beaten Alexander refused to negotiate. The victorious Napoleon decided he had to retreat; the Russians harried him all the way back to Germany. Closer to home, Napoleon was still able to beat back all attackers, but Alexander persuaded the Prussians and Austrians to march directly on Paris. Napoleon's underlings succeeded in persuading him to abdicate. Alexander's triumph made Russia for the first time a great European power, and filled the Russians with an intoxicating sense of greatness. From...
That bedrock contention of the cold war simply does not stand up these days. Insofar as the Kremlin still calls the tune, it is sounding retreat. In the past year the U.S.S.R. has removed its army from Afghanistan, prevailed on Viet Nam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia, and helped begin extricating the Cubans from Angola...
...that was the postwar world; this is the post-cold war world, and things are dizzyingly different. Europe has been transformed by the retreat of Soviet imperial power, the collapse of Communist governments in the center of the Continent and the evaporation of the Warsaw Pact. The blinding pace of events actually accelerated last week, clearing the way for the unification of Germany, a new European security system and a 35-nation conference to ratify the reconstruction -- all before the end of this year...
...Democratic retreat created an opening for gleeful Republicans, who found themselves in the unaccustomed role of Social Security's staunchest defenders. Says a Republican leader: "As usual, ((the Democrats)) began flapping around and knocking each other down like the F Troop of politics." To the consternation of Democratic leaders, G.O.P. lawmakers began distributing campaign buttons with the slogan SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY. VOTE REPUBLICAN. George Bush also weighed in, repeating the pledge made in his State of the Union Address that he would not "mess around" with Social Security. "This is an effort to get me to try to raise taxes...