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...situation in which their decision would be based not on the dictates of politics, but drawn out of that fuzzy world of human merit. Decision making is a power that men shrink from. Men, and senators too, will go far afield in looking for the situation where the ay or nay is clear and one has only to follow. Repression is a siren with a loud wail and a jailer's heart. Harris hears in the distance police sirens coming for America...
...when, with exquisite tact, the author mildly reproaches Hornblower for infidelities to his wife, Lady Barbara (sister of the Duke of Wellington), or speculates that she, too, may have enjoyed a brief liaison with Baron von Neffzer in Vienna in 1815-when Hornblower and the Vicomtesse de Graçay were temporarily holding Bonaparte's regulars at bay along the Loire. A similar tact touches Professor Parkinson's handling of the then Lieutenant Hornblower's heretofore unsuspected murder of Captain David Sawyer (H.M.S. Renown, 74 guns) on the West Indies station in 1800.* A pedant...
...people who cannot afford to ???ay have moved. They are not here ?? get the benefit from the roll-back. A lot of the new tenants are and they are being quite vocal in demanding as much rent relief as they...
...forward to a Spiro Agnew wastebasket, with decorations commemorating his crowning victories on the golf course and tennis court. A windup Richard Nixon box looks something like a toaster and contains a loose-jointed figure in the presidential image that dances to a tinkly Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. Strangely silent, however, is the forthcoming Martha Mitchell doll, authorized by the Attorney General's wife herself...
...could probably extract ?? ?theme. While the loss of student identity ?? ?creaming through on mass-processing days ?? yesterday, the kids aren't the only ones who ?? have suffered. The extent to which everyone at ?? Harvard-the once-respected Faculty as well as the ?? ?ansient students-is having his humanity squeezed ?? ?ay is one of the truly depressing phenomena of ?? last few years...