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...action. He wanted to discuss the war in Viet Nam but, because of the still continuing peace offensive, not in too much detail. He had plans for many new projects at home, but he wanted to leave himself an out in the event the war escalates. So, in a sober, straightforward speech, he strongly expressed his belief that the U.S. has the strength to fight the war and simultaneously improve its society at home...
Five Watchers. Such a man as Lowry has trouble in this world even when sober-which he was for long productive periods. His letters, collected by his widow and the New York Times's Harvey Breit, record enough of those troubles -neglect, poverty, manuscripts lost or burned-to make paranoiacs of 50 poets. Lowry first appears as "a small boy chased by furies." He strummed a guitar in dives, "ran away to sea," and the last thing he did to please his bewildered father, a Liverpool cotton broker who fox-hunted, was to graduate (third-class honors) in English...
...successful, at 50, and retired at 70. Disraeli might proclaim that "almost everything that is great has been done by youth." But the vast majority agreed instead with Lord Chesterfield, who remarked, "Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough...
...former boss of the Central Intelligence Agency, spent 100 days at its task, interviewed hundreds of people ranging all the way from the Negro whose arrest for drunken driving touched off the holocaust to Brown himself. Last week the commission released its findings and no-nonsense recommendations* with a sober warning that unless immediate action is taken, the August riots "may seem by comparison to be only a curtain raiser for what could blow up one day in the future." Highlights: > To erase the appalling gap between the educational levels of whites and Negroes in Los Angeles schools, it-urged...
...This is the only place I've ever had fun putting on plays," he mused to some half-drunk actors from the Dunster Christmas play, himself not entirely sober at the time. "We didn't have to worry about reviews, the stage hands union, Actor's Equity, or our backers. We could do whatever the hell we wanted...