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Barzun is peevish about so many things: "the mixing of peoples, the spate of democratic and totalitarian harangues, the burst of inventions and new sciences, the spawning of processes, abstractions and manufactured goods, the freedom to play with language that literacy and advertising encourage." He is even upset that people are living longer these days. "Unwanted by the business world, unwanted by their younger families, lacking authority, respect and responsibility," American oldsters may as well leave their Florida benches and march into the sea. Barzun has an irritating habit of telling other people how to live...
...Rocky hit again at Goldwater's scheme to make social security a voluntary program. Said Rockefeller: "It would bankrupt the social security system and be a personal disaster to millions of senior citizens and their families." Despite zero temperatures, Rocky clutched hundreds of hands and rattled off a spate of quick speeches to shivering but receptive crowds. Always easygoing and folksy, Rockefeller engaged a platoon of little boys in a snowball fight in Jaffrey, and that same night wound up straddling an onstage chair to hear the Keene Lion's Club chorus rehearse. The Lions roared Brotherhood...
...armies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda mutinied; poison arrows began flying in the Congo. And although he claimed no responsibility for the flare-ups ("We Chinese are often surprised by compliments we do not deserve," he quipped dryly in Somalia), many Africans found it hard to swallow such a spate of coincidences. Whether he was guilty or not, they were glad to see Chou out of Africa...
Despite the current spate of difficulties, the U.S. is not reaching for panic buttons. Nobody doubts U.S. primacy as a world power-though there is doubt whether that power is being used effectively. Nobody is really worried, either, that a big war is imminent, or even that a brush-fire war will grow out of last week's problems. But the problem still must be dealt with, as Lyndon Johnson sees only too well in grappling with his hot-spotted map. "We cannot treat each of these troubles as an isolated crisis in itself," he told a visitor last...
...Uneven Spate. This is light treatment, even in the current cultural "thaw" on which Nikita Khrushchev seems to blow now hot, now cold. Other writers have fared much worse-or feared to try publishing at all. The Trial Begins, a brilliant satiric fantasy that treats life among party members as a grotesque nightmare of greed and hypocrisy, had to be smuggled out of Russia and printed under the assumed name of Abram Tertz. No one yet knows who the real author is. Soviet Writer Valery Tarsis, in The Bluebottle (Knopf), cavalierly compared the attitude of officials liquidating citizens to that...