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...hopped across Tennessee, Carter carefully but forcefully attacked Reagan's positions without hitting Reagan personally, and he noticeably recast his earlier statements to give them a more positive thrust: "I want to see the nation united, North and South united, black and white united, rural and urban united...
Whatever its specific policies, the general thrust of a Reagan Administration would be clear. The point arose during a discussion of his intellectual abilities. Asked if he thought that criticism of his mind was based on snobbery, he instantly answered yes. Then he elaborated: "I think there is an elite in this country and they are the very ones who run an elitist Government. They want a Government by a handful of people because they don't believe that the people themselves can run their lives. And this, I believe, is what the political contest has been all about...
...announcing the award, worth $212,000, the Swedish Academy cited Milosz's "uncompromising clear-sightedness" in a world thick with moral and intellectual conflicts. This is the familiar yet urgent condition of the modernist tradition into which Milosz was thrust by history. As he wrote in Mid-Twentieth-Century Portrait (1945): "Keeping one hand on Marx's writings, he reads the Bible in private./ His mocking eye on processions leaving burnt-out churches./ His backdrop: a horseflesh-colored city in ruins...
...Milosz the poet, however, who has been suddenly thrust before the world. Works such as Selected Poems (Seabury Press, New York) and Bells in Winter (Ecco Press, New York) have long attracted glowing attention from other writers and poets, especially those who share Milosz's state of spiritual and political exile. Says fellow Pole Jerzy Kosinski: "He remains very Slavic in his idiom and main obsession: What is the essence of life? Why are we here? It is not how to live, but why, for the sake of what?" Emigré Poet Joseph Brodsky adds: "What this poet preaches...
...innings of thrust and parry in Kansas City last night, but in the end, the Royals delivered the Philadelphia Phillies the coup de grace to take the third game of the World Series...