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...terms. In the past it was always Carter who was the challenger, and there are those who are beginning to wonder if he knows how to run as an incumbent, especially one with a record that is complicated to defend. Then too there is no doubt that, wise or not, Carter's attacks are heartfelt, that he fervently believes Reagan would be a disaster for the country, that the Governor's lack of understanding of domestic and world problems, and his extremist past statements, do indeed raise the specter of war and domestic divisions. Says a close presidential...
...Prime Minister Menachem Begin: "King Hussein has forgotten the lesson of the 1967 Six-Day War [when Jordan lost East Jerusalem and the West Bank by coming to Egypt's aid] and is jumping on the Iraqi bandwagon. I have the impression that this is not a very wise move on his part." The King justified his support for Iraq on the ground of Arab solidarity, but Western diplomats believe that he was taking a bold gamble. The Israelis always get nervous and trigger-happy, they pointed out, whenever Jordan aligns itself militarily with another Arab state. For that...
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Kingsley Amis, the author of Lucky Jim, The Anti-Death League, and a host of other smart, stylish and occasionally quite silly novels, writes wise and vaguely stodgy poetry, full of long gentlemanly metaphors but without much crispness of language. His Collected Poems 1944-1979 is, as any bag of 35 years' worth of anything has every right to be, a bit of a hodge podge. There are some prematurely-greying early works of some elegance, rather reminiscent of early Philip Larkin or John Wain ("Belgian Winter," "Retrospect"); there is some doggerel ("Fair Shares for All"); there is some sophomoric...
...addition, the Crimson needed the win. Ivy-wise, the squad is not in good shape with an 0-1-1 record and Dartmouth, Princeton and Yale still to come. Overall, the 3-3-2 mark doesn't look bad, but the tie with Cornell (at home) might--tournament selection committees are big on such things...