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...vote be needed. On the trip back from West Point, Ford went to work on Air Force One's telephone, going down the list of his opponents and calling member after member, including some Southern Democrats. He called California's Pete McCloskey, Ohio's William Stanton, Tennyson Guyer and Charles Mosher, Illinois' Edward Madigan and Robert McClory, Michigan's Philip Ruppe, Vermont's James Jeffords. They all promised to go with the President. "This means an awful lot to me," Ford told them...
...life. Money Is Love does have patches so swampy that even addicted admirers will cast down their eyes in shame, but the life signs are nevertheless strong: "Mason took in enough cannabis smoke to allow a Lipan Apache manipulating a blanket over it to transmit the complete works of Tennyson. He swallowed hard. He held it down until his eyes watered, then he blew it out slowly. He grinned at her broadly. 'Your husband was murdered in front of Bloomingdale's at two-ten this afternoon...
Ricks comes to America with a long list of academic achievements. At the age of 28 a tender one for a literary critic, he wrote Milton's Grand Style which his remained a seminal work in the field of Milton criticism. His subsequent studies of Keafs and Tennyson have contributed to an appreciation of those poets. During his current tour of American campuses he has been lecturing primarily on the works of W. B. Yeats and I.S. Pliot...
...FOLKWAYS COLLECTION, with more volumes to come, is a pretty thorough examination of the entire Watergate nexus of corruption. It contains no narrative, just straight excerpting from the available testimony; for the most part the excerpts stick to the highlights. There are even some funny lines: Bernard Barkers paraphrases Tennyson's "Ours is Not to Question Why..." somber-voiced James McCord replies to Ervin's question about what Mitchell called him. "Before or after the Break-in?" Folkways also includes one Nixon speech, his Watergate Address of April...
Thus, in the iambics of his Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson voiced the anomie that propelled the ancient Greeks to embark on fragile craft in search of islands where life, far from the mainland tensions of politics and war, would be eternally serene. That urge-or illusion -has never been stronger than it is today in the U.S. and Canada, where with aircraft, power boats and well-laden wallets, romantics and hard-nosed investors alike can seek modern Happy Isles remote from the purgatory of urban-suburban life...