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Some of the memoranda that Ellsberg wrote for American policy makers while he was stationed in Vietnam are very remarkable when compared to the sort of documents that make up the bulk of the Pentagon Papers. "Visit to an Insecure Province" and "The Day Loc Tien Was Pacified" both abandon the sad reliance on quantitative indices of progress (such as kill ratios) in favor of reporting impressions and representative conversations...
...higher rhetorical road. He accepted his uncontested renomination with a speech he wrote himself that was admirably devoid of bombast and his normal partisan narrowness. To be sure, he attacked McGovern's policies as "piecemeal, inconsistent and illusory" and claimed that the Democratic candidate would "retreat into isolationism, abandon our allies, and concentrate wholly on our internal affairs at the great expense of our national security." Yet he also called for an end to policies that would "divide this nation into partisan blocs, each fighting only for its own self-centered and limited ends." He deplored the practice...
...takers. At his suggestion, the owner of an insurance agency in a Boston suburb replaced his flashily attired sales force with men in gray suits, simple ties and button-down collars-and sales boomed. A trial lawyer with a folksy courtroom manner and a losing record was persuaded to abandon his pinstripe suits and wire-rimmed spectacles (which were more suitable for a remote "authority figure") in favor of solid blue suits and glasses with thicker frames that gave him a friendlier image. He is now winning more cases...
...colonel type. A 60-year-old native of Brooklyn, he looks and sounds more like Archie Bunker's big brother. But his hamburgers are something else: one-third pound of lean meat seasoned with 32 spices and a special sauce. Gleichenhaus, who insults customers and employees with equal abandon, takes his seasoning seriously; he often chastises patrons who unknowingly ask for ketchup or mustard...
...current A.B.T. season. In Erik Bruhn's staging of Bournonville's La Sylphide, he portrayed the unhappy lover of an elusive sylph (Natalia Makarova) with something like delicacy and restraint. In Anton Dolin's Variations for Four, he stole the show with the sheer, pantherish abandon of his movements. As the young seducer in Antony Tudor's Pillar of Fire, he was appropriately ardent. Last week, in Fokine's Le Spectre de la Rose, he was a little too effeminate as the Spirit of the Rose (not helped by a lurid pink, rose-petaled body...