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...life in the Vatican by Italian Artist Pietro Annigoni (who painted last January's Man of the Year cover of John F. Kennedy). The painter's reaction to the Pope: "So nice, so simple, so direct, so close to you . . . and yet so terribly distant. Even the simplest conversation with him ended with a few words putting you in front of Eternity...
...still senses the patent failure of Kennedy to live up to his battle cry. The President admittedly has not got the nation moving as fast as he and everyone else would like. So, facing the off-year elections, what does he plan to do about it? In the simplest of terms, he hopes to blame everything on the Republicans...
...grief, a Negro steward's blackmail of the dead officer, and the Navy's distaste for the bad publicity that his investigation seems likely to bring, pressure develops to cut the investigation short and just report "suicide, causes unknown," Marks fights back out of the simplest of motives-he is angry at being pushed around. But when both Navy and lawyers back down, the lieutenant triumphantly becomes commander of the situation, only to learn the moral anguish of command decision. Going ahead with a Navy hearing will hurt the mother-whose whole story Marks now knows-and will...
...from poems "like rabbits out of a hat." He was still only 24 when he published Seven Types of Ambiguity, which examined microscopically not only Shakespeare, but also much of English poetry, uncovering layer after layer of ambiguity in works that had been considered perfectly clear. Not even the simplest lines escaped Empson's scrutiny. After reading Lovelace's lines, "Stone walls do not a prison make/ Nor iron bars a cage," Empson debated for a page whether walls did or did not, in fact, make a prison...
...like the Red Queen, to pasteboard. As Dodgson wrote to one of his young friends: "If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things." No Boys. Charles Dodgson found many ways to truth. He was absorbed in science, photography, medicine, the theater. He concocted puzzles, invented gadgets and games. Most of all, the gentle, fussy bachelor sought truth and solace with dozens of small girls on whom he could lavish affection without...