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...genie that Congress is even now trying to stuff back into some sort of legislative bottle. As the book develops, dynastic rivalries between Presidents and parties are less fierce than continuing an almost mortal combat between the White House and the CIA. The dark deed that makes the plot boil, in fact, is a political murder, secretly ordered by Democratic President William Arthur Curry and carried out by the CIA on a Latin American beachhead (here called Rio de Muerte) easily identifiable as the Bay of Pigs...
...startling or even wayward in his work. Nothing seems to bubble up unbidden out of his unconscious, out of those memories he must surely share with all actors, of bad ideas tried out in rehearsal and found embarrassing, of nights when he must have felt he was going to boil in his own flop sweat. It was those memories-a performer's kinship acknowledged-that informed Olivier's work and, finally, humanized and redeemed his Archie. The recognition of self in the role of Archie and the willingness to admit it are beyond Lemmon. He is distant, predictable...
...meet should boil down to a tough, close battle between Harvard and Princeton, with Yale deciding some of the points along the way. "When you match up the previous scores, it looks pretty well balanced," McCurdy said Thursday...
Naturally, Americans watching the Games will be pulling for Young and Mueller and Hamill. Austrians will be banking on victory from their skiing heroes, and Russians will be cheering on their countrymen. But despite the rivalries and loyalties, the news from Innsbruck will boil down to something as old and transcendent as the idea of the Olympics-the lonely, private, consummate effort to exceed in the human arena, and in competition where the drama and grace of the match surpass all else...
...soul. Returning to Harvard in 1974, I thought I noticed a drop in temperature which wasn't "just me." If it would be presumptuous to preach or speak for others, perhaps I can at least share some impressions to see if they resonate at all. They boil down to the claim that we are being fatefully socialized here into a way of knowing and naming the world which renders whole populations invisible and entire regions in ourselves inaccessible, and which saddles us with gloomy characterizations of human nature that keep faith with no one and aren't half so realistic...