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...proved as great a scourge of biographers as he was of political opponents. The difficulties seem insoluble: the man has to be separated from the history that made him and the history that he made. Marx also has to be removed from the True Believers, who find him blameless, and the Great Haters, who see him with horns and a tail...
...left. It had proliferated; many little offshoots were now hanging down until they dangled over the radiator." Perceptions noted, then brushed aside, only to return again, create the underlying rhythm of their days, until Marcia's mental backslide brings a sharper focus. Pym charts the courses of these blameless lives, informing them with a wise, rueful compassion that is all too rare in contemporary fiction...
...President is also faulted for trying to solve problems by drafting overly "comprehensive" programs and handing them to Congress for prompt approval. Welfare reform, civil service reform, tax reform were all announced with fanfare but have not moved far toward adoption. Congress is hardly blameless since it is more rebellious and disorganized than ever, and occasionally inclined to show the newcomer in the White House that he is not the boss. Yet Carter has persisted in policies that have not won sufficient support for passage. His energy legislation was too hastily assembled without consulting enough relevant groups. It placed...
BACK IN THE 1950s, Massachusetts legislators disapprovingly dubbed Harvard "The Kremlin on the Charles." The University was then reputed to be a citadel of academic freedom during the McCarthy era. Within the last few months, however, evidence has emerged that Harvard's actions during those years were not as blameless as they seemed...
...have at least two fatal accidents during its first two years. But only one commercial crash has occurred since the jet was introduced in 1970?in Nairobi in 1974?and that was because the Lufthansa pilot did not extend the proper wing flaps while taking off. The 747 was blameless, of course, for the catastrophe at Tenerife. Leaving aside Nairobi and Tenerife, a total of 297 of these jets, operated by 44 carriers, have flown 360 billion passenger-miles without fatalities...