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Dave Hirsh, late-thirtyish mock hero of Running, is that stock figure of much modern fiction, the self-pitying sore head who believes that the world owes him a loving. Dave is a World War II veteran and the author of two minor novels. He has been AWOL from his typewriter for seven years, and Choctaw rather than English would appear to be his first language. Sample: "A person could actually kill themselves that way." On an alcoholic whim, Dave returns in 1947 to Parkman. Ill., the hick home town he had deserted 19 years earlier in flight from...
...about taking the Christ out of Christmas and the sing-songy rhythms and rhymes, while appropriate for the subject, walk the poem too hard in places. Elsewhere it stumbles over metrically awkward phrases or inconsistent imagery: "But when we got there the manger was bare./ The land was sore athirst." Consequently, the Magi seem to progress with the poem in a series of starts and stops. It is appropriate for them to stumble occasionally, but they never seem to be really moving enough to have occasion for stumbling...
...American people are nervous, skeptical and annoyed about our conduct of scientific research and development. The people are not frightened. But they are getting pretty sore...
...Labor, with power to subpoena records and individuals, and a change in the law to give federal courts jurisdiction in cases of embezzlement of union funds, which now fall exclusively to state courts. With this kind of added strength, the Labor Department could be certain of keeping all sore spots in union business under constant attention. And, where necessary, he added, union delinquency would be met by withdrawal of union tax-exempt status, and by cutting off offenders from the life-and-death services of the National Labor Relations Board...
...Armed Services Committee, is aggressively dissatisfied with the answers the committee is getting from the Pentagon on U.S. defense policy. "Say, tell me about Dick Russell," said Ike to an aide. "I thought he was a friend of mine. What's the matter with him? Why is he sore at us?" Answered the astonished aide: "Why, Mr. President, you can't expect him to be very happy over the Little Rock situation and use of Federal troops." "Golly," said Ike of the man who last summer directed the Southern attack on civil rights legislation, "I didn...