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...Elke Sommer essays a predictable Treatise on Eugenics about a free-thinking Swedish miss who tours Rome seeking a perfect specimen of Latin manhood to sire an illegitimate child. In the end, of course, Elke must choose between her theories and the prospect of breeding urchins with her hired chauffeur, a sturdy but steady Neanderthal...
...Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings. Robert Frost sounds as homey as a neighbor chatting in the kitchen: Robinson Jeffers, proclaiming that violence is "the bloody sire of all the world's values," has a voice as deep as doom...
...could not even vote for himself. "Carpetbagger!" cried Pierre's chief opponent, State Controller Alan Cranston. Asked what issues he and Salinger disagreed on, Cranston replied acidly: "The only subject I see at the moment that Mr. Salinger and I could productively debate is his apparent de sire to reapportion the U.S. Senate with three seats California." from Pierre Virginia and one reapportioned from the Democratic vote to his side, 1,193,934 to Cranston...
...week before he decided to enter Quadrangle in the race. Paul Mellon's handsome colt has the look of a classic horse: at 16.1 hands and 1,100 lbs., he is one of the biggest three-year-olds in the U.S. And he has breeding to match: his sire, Cohoes, won stakes at two, three and four, and his dam, Tap Day, was a daughter of Calumet Farm's great Bull Lea. But in the Kentucky Derby, Quadrangle finished fifth behind Northern Dancer; in the Preakness, the best he could do was fourth. Still, Burch decided to gamble...
...magnificent old stallion is now 29, the equivalent of 145 in human years, and, with a mere eight foals this spring, in the twilight of his years. So is the dynasty. Bull Lea's sons have never matched their father's prowess as a sire...