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Morrison said yesterday he regrets that Hollis and members of minority law student organizations have not continued to write him personally, rather than "carry on a third-person discussion in the press...
...great writer. Indeed, he was afraid that nothing he had ever written would last, that in his columns he was preaching only to those already converted. His aloof, critical onlooker's ethic, valid professionally, no longer could sustain his life. As he himself says, in the third-person prose that achieves objectivity. "His sense of self had finally required of him that he go into the pit." And once having seen the hostages huddled in their ring and having heard the impassioned speeches of the inmates, knowing that the guns ringing in Attica were ready to settle the matter...
...beyond an impetuous hero's "God's teeth!" ("What a shocking remark!" exclaims the heroine.) Sex never gets further than a kiss, but manages to crop up in perfervid abundance anyway. (Flushed heroines protest, "No, I don't go in for promiscuous kissing.") And the ubiquitous third-person narrator wonders: "What on earth was the matter with her ... turning color just because Glyn Harney was now talking about ... beds...
...began publishing poems in 1914. Influenced by both Sigmund Freud and Harvard Philosopher George Santayana, Aiken searched in his poetry and prose for musical and psychological truth -an effort resulting in rich mental atmospheres but lacking in drama and force. Best known for his Selected Poems, for Ushant, a third-person autobiography, and for a number of short stories, notably Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Aiken published more than 50 books of poetry, fiction and essays during his 57-year literary career. His final poetic work, Thee, published in 1971, summarized his personal philosophy "that there are no final solutions, that...
...Clark MacGregor, then chief of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, said: "Using innuendo, third-person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges, anonymous sources and huge scare headlines, the [Washington] Post has maliciously sought to give the appearance of a direct connection between the White House and the Watergate, a charge which the Post knows-and a half a dozen investigations have found-to be false...