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...Fulbright was taking potshots at the Pentagon's $660 million military-science research program, the $80 billion defense budget was getting a discouraging reception from tribal magicians elsewhere in the Senate, notably Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. But the Fulbright spell was still the most potent. In his criticism, he singled out studies seemingly remote from conventional soldiering. Why, for example, was the Defense Department studying Latin American students? Foster stuck to his brief, explaining that offbeat information was required because the U.S. might have to become involved in the unlikeliest places...
...time, I need?yes, I need?the French people to tell me that this is their wish." It was an extraordinary and almost touching admission from De Gaulle. Then he explained that he intended to submit some time in June a referendum to the voters in which he would spell out his proposals for modifying French life...
...Impossible!" I hissed. But nevertheless I did try, and somehow, in that warm, dark room listening to that girl's warm voice, the meditation was reminiscent of my first ones. The next morning, back at Harvard, I couldn't recapture the spell, and since she hadn't even asked about particular conditions of my trouble the check-up didn't help...
...Cubicar looks, says the London Daily Sketch, "like a motorized greenhouse without the tomatoes" [May 10]. The Sketch critic is blind. The two dolls in the front seat of the Cubicar are as pretty a pair of tomatoes as I've seen displayed in quite a spell...
...Emerson's poetics) through which Gelpi approaches all American poetry and which--when phrased as compellingly as in the following example--justifies even a restricted reading of Emerson: If for Emerson the poet was a Dionysian god, voicing instinctively the organic order of Nature under the spell of the divine frenzy, the poet was for Poe an Apollonian god extending his masterful hand over the confusion of nature through the shaping acts of language...