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...theme of Candidate Jimmy Carter's autobiography more explicit than in his campaign promises on the administration of justice. Said he: "All federal judges and prosecutors should be appointed strictly on the basis of merit, without any consideration of political aspects or influence." But, lo and behold, merit has turned up, as it so often does in politics, apportioned according to party lines...
...read at prayer services this Saturday morning. It was a passage from Genesis describing the reconciliation of Jacob and his brother Esau, who fathered the Edomites, said to be forebears of today's Arabs. A key passage from the reading: "Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold Esau came ... and Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept...
...meant to mention that beyond the psychodrama, the Red Sox won an exciting game, 4 to 3. Then the Yankees won an exciting game, 6 to 5. The baseball was marvelous to behold...
...exercising an unexpected taste for self-destruction? Fecklessly proving his star's clout to impose himself on us any way he wants to? The answer is no. What he is doing is growing, right before our eyes, and it is a fine sight to behold...
...course, we thought, the Academy always has flirted with these stabs at social relevance. But lo and behold, this new mood of reflection and self-criticism seemed to be translating into intelligent choices. Jason Robards, for his role as Washington Post managing editor Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men pulled the Best Supporting Actor prize from under the long nose of heart-strings favorite Burgess Meredith (who, we must conclude, kissed away all his chances of redeeming respectability when he played the Penguin in television's "Batman" series...