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...very cheerful. But I do have a sense of holy anger. Anybody who says there is never a time when he is not motivated by anger should never be a leader. I want to leave a lot of things up my sleeve. But my aim is to avoid the mistakes of other countries who say they will be a jet flying, but only go up and soon crash. You just watch us: we shall teach the rest of the world how to be sober about independence...
While Thatcher and Callaghan got their campaigns into high gear, they followed a tacit agreement long honored by their parties to avoid partisan dispute over the painful issue of Northern Ireland. But last week, the issue was suddenly thrust forward because of remarks that U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill made at a private dinner in Dublin attended by Irish Prime Minister Jack Lynch. O'Neill said that the Ulster problem had been given "low priority" by Britain, that "it had been treated as a political football in London," and that the U.S. would "insist" that the next...
...this volatile environment, the Federal Reserve chairman argues that the board should take great care before making any marked change. As he told TIME: "We must avoid the unpredictability of monetary policy and moderate the swings of interest rates. Last summer there was criticism that if the Federal Reserve tightened money, we would wreck the economy. Now the clamor is the other way, telling us to do more. We must resist those temptations and have more nerve and sense of responsibility to look at the final good for the nation and not to our popularity from week to week...
Another way to approach spiritual perfection is to associate as much as possible with people who have more spiritual awareness and to avoid "weak people," whom Chitrabhanu defines as those with addictions, such as smoking, drinking, cursing or promiscuity. He compares people beginning the search for spiritual awareness to seedlings, which require firm support until they in turn are big enough to act as supports themselves...
THOUGH clearly one of Ochs' greatest admirers. Eliot doesn't avoid the painful facts of Ochs' last eight years. Eliot's account of those last years is a telling description of personal disintegration. The era had disintegrated first and it was Ochs' shell that people saw during those last years. And so the most chilling story in the book, the story of "John Train," a vicious, violent persona that Ochs crawled into in 1975, is tragic, but it is only a personal tragedy. The larger tragedy came when Ochs sought but could never find the notes that could reach...