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...novelincludes a highly-suggestive passage about a "pouting sex kitten." On NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday, moderator Tim Russert sprung a reading of the House Speaker's book on the presidential aspirant: "Suddenly the pouting sex kitten gave way to Diana the huntress. She rolled onto him, sitting athwart his chest, her knees pinning his shoulders. 'Tell me, or I'll make you do terrible things."' Asked about the language, Dole said: "It's troubling to me. Maybe it's not troubling to Newt Gingrich." Today, White House spokesman Mike McCurry couldn't help himself. "I want that book...
...condemned to follow a path away from Jewish tradition, leaving both scholarship and conscience behind. Among them is Brill's only son, Naphtali, upon whom the father had pinned his hopes for redemption. Naphtali is headed not for the Sorbonne, where Joseph hoped he might bear "Jerusalem athwart the Louvre," but to the University of Miami, where he studies business administration...
...this feistiest of Fourths, it will not be Oh, Say Can You See? in New York harbor. There the longest, widest, heaviest, starriest national banner ever lofted will spread amaze amid the tops'ls of tall ships and raise the first gulp of the day. Hung athwart the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and visible far at sea, the superflag measures 193 ft. by 366 ½ ft., bigger by half than a football field, weighs 1 ½ tons and is constructed like a sail to weather all winds. It was Betsy Rossed in the loft of Marblehead, Mass., Yachtsman-Sailmaker...
Nguyen Van Thieu, his army and police, stand directly athwart the path of Vietnamese progress. Thieu has no awesome visions; his only desire is to remain in power and to continue rewarding the small group of landlords and government officials who support him. Thieu cannot survive without the massive amounts of American aid which finance his government and equip his army. But the United States is weary of war, weary of pouring money into the bottomless Vietnamese pit. Thieu must insure that the aid continues despite the stiffening American reluctance...
Such is the awesome tragedy of revolution, a tragedy just re-enacted in Chile, a tragedy that has always posed a wretched dilemma for the Left. Socialists, believing that men and women are products of their social circumstance, can hardly pin any ultimate blame on those who stand athwart the path of revolution. And yet the imperatives of a situation quite often seem to dictate that those people who impede progress be removed, at times forceably and violently removed...