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...work with at this point--his constituents' feelings--is still ambiguous. On the one hand, there is an obvious and unmistakable disaffection with the Nixon administration. Small town newspaper editors who endorsed Nixon two years ago are now writing pro-impeachment editorials. Cynicism and disgust towards Watergate abound in local political discussions. And the loss of the two very solid Republican House seats in Michigan and Ohio a few weeks ago threatens ominous consequences for almost any Republican running in almost any district on almost any record...
...symptomatic of the anything-to-please atmosphere that suffuses such recruiting visits. The most seductive sell may be offered at the University of Florida, where visiting prospects are entertained by the "Gator Getters," a group of coeds organized to escort prospects to games, meals and dances. Rumors abound that high school athletes courted by Florida "can't miss...
...industrial picture is equally gloomy. The government has revised its projected growth rate from 10.7% downward to 6%, but forecasts of zero or even minus growth abound for 1974. Last week's announcement by the Arab countries that they intend to cut oil pro duction another 5% in January could lead to a disastrous 20% to 30% shortfall in deliveries. Yoshiya Ariyoshi, chairman of the Mitsubishi-owned N.Y.K. shipping line, calls the situation an economic Guadalcanal-"the point of farthest advance where the steady retreat began." Like many other businessmen, he considers a depression a real possibility...
Feydeau was never restrained by the polite inhibition that one cannot kid the tonsils off a person who stutters, and his plays abound in incidental characters whom nature has shortchanged. He was a quintessential absurdist. With dead pan verbal incongruity a character may say, "Just because my life is ruined doesn't mean I can't act like a gentle man. After all, life isn't everything...
Like all the best modern writing, Beckett's works are about writing itself, in process. The novels abound in descriptions of the properties and progress of writing: pencils and pens, and the quality of the line creeping across the page. Beckett's writing cultivates its own present tense, and struggles against the complications of time trying to break out of it. Time for Beckett is a kind of cancer on the whole body of existence, or else the sign of the original sin, birth. Only death can absolve that sin, and only the absence of plot can avoid...