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...every recent measure of public sentiment, the economy is far and away the dominant political issue of 1976. Though many more Americans worry about inflation than unemployment, concern over jobs ranks well ahead of any noneconomic issue, including crime and detente. Democrats assail President Ford for a lack of urgent action on jobs; Ford and most Republicans respond that the recovery is strong and no costly emergency program is needed...
...such doubts assail the two leads. Harrison is letter-perfect, which is not too surprising since Sebastian is simply Henry Higgins 18 years older. His nasal drawl, his lounge-lizard posture, his Swiss-clock comic timing are on superb display. Harris matches him. She seems to have discovered the secret that eluded Ponce de Leon. With each passingplay, she appears more youthful -her face lineless, her figure trim, her carriage gracefully girlish. In acting subservient to her husband while deftly stage-managing everything, she strongly recalls those '30s heroines of S.N. Behrman's comedies who used...
Constant messengers of hope assail them. Periodically, an old biddy pops in to pass out leaflets and verbal pep pills: "Good morning. I have a message for you. It's that God gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Moments later, the ballet of death begins again as white screens wheel and circle to shield in final decorum the bed of a dying patient...
Scott is getting nervous because he went out on a limb to assail Dean's credibility on the basis of tape transcripts and summaries shown to him by Nixon. The failure of the White House to make the same information public disturbs Scott. His associates worry that he may have been misled by the one-week discrepancy in Dean's testimony about hush money, perhaps having seen a transcript in which no such discussion appeared. As for giving the Rodino committee what it wants, Scott, too, is opposed to "fishing expeditions," but he does not believe that the committee...
Mindszenty had, in fact, become something of a thorn for the Vatican. Both in Vienna and on visits abroad, he took every opportunity to assail Hungary's Communist government, obdurately remaining a stumbling block in the Vatican's policy of Ostpolitik-an attempt to improve relations with the Communist countries of Eastern Europe and normalize church activities there. Mindszenty's forced retirement was clearly seen as a way of speeding up the policy in Hungary, where the church has won concessions with painful slowness. Simultaneously with the Mindszenty announcement, the Vatican made public four new episcopal appointments...