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...Republican Jack Javits), Keating sticks to his old specialties-judiciary and immigration-when he is not dealing with his new specialty, Cuba. He regularly keeps his name and ideas before his constituents by broadcasting TV programs across the state. In his early Senate days, he became something of a wit. In a speech a few years ago, he observed that every time Senator Jack Kennedy appeared on a TV panel show, "thousands of viewers write in to ask which college won the debate." He further pointed out that the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther "has announced that labor...
...people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little packets of mercy," to wit, sample cans of contraceptive foam...
...lived in an average anachronistic prison: the natural humanity of the prisoners and their guards, the subhuman system that makes them beasts and keepers, the soul-destroying hatred of either for other, the teeth that glitter cruelly behind every smile, the moral stench of slowly rotting lives, the wit honed to a cutting edge on iron bars...
...himself as a living Anglo-American alliance already has scads of transatlantic ties, from honorary citizenship in the city of Jacksonville, Fla., to life membership in the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Co. of Alexandria, Va. Yet Sir Winston is an honorary citizen (since 1941) of only one country-to wit, Cuba...
Widening Awe. Through the author's elaborate literary construction, Caldwell-Chiron clumps on two feet or prances on four. In both shapes his portrait is memorable. The other god-teachers, too, are drawn with grace and wit. There is a wry. schoolboy truth in seeing Father Zeus as a capricious pedagogue who tyrannizes teachers and likes to fondle the shoulders of girl students...