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...Labor Party is already in full cry. Describing the Tory selection process as viciously undemocratic, the Laborite Daily Mirror wrote: "Butler has been betrayed, Maudling insulted, Macleod ignored, Heath treated with contempt and Hailsham giggled out of court by the jester in hospital." Deriding the Tories' "aristocratic cabal," Harold Wilson last week took aim and declared scornfully: "In this ruthlessly competitive, scientific, technical, industrial age, a week of intrigues has produced a result based on family and hereditary connections. The leader has emerged-an elegant anachronism...
...this is the best an international cabal of publishing potentates could do, then our young writers had a singularly unproductive year. The Age of Malaise is not a bad book, but it is an uninspired, and uninspiring one. It flits from bedroom to passion-fraught bedroom following the heroine, a 17 year-old stenography student named Enrica, who clearly is searching for something to bring meaning to her darb existence...
...only attracted the world's eye after Hitler's rise to power, it was organized nearly ten years before the First World War, and it collected within its "cells" the inheritors of a tradition of nationalist, monarchist and reactionary thought extending back almost 100 years. It was no mere cabal of amoral big businessmen such as supported the so-called Comite France-Allemagne and the ultra-conservative grande presse; but a meeting-place for distinguished and gifted intellectuals whose disdain for the republic was wholly disinterested, the result of literary and philosophical predispositions, not any desire to safeguard financial investments...
...stoutly defended the new Carmen, praising Martell's performance and calling Resnik "the best Carmen ever seen." Last week it was apparent from the SRO signs outside the house that Director Ducreux had a hit on his hands. As for the riot, noted Ducreux tolerantly, "It was a cabal against me, a vegetable rich cabal. The hecklers were only looking for a raison d'être. They have-modified Descartes' statement to make it "I boo, therefore I exist...
...problems which Weinberg's cabal was called in to solve affect every aspect of New York's present crisis. For a really adequate system of public transportation is the only alternative to increased private traffic on the city's streets. And, as Paul Goodman in a recent book of Utopian Proposals suggested, any final solution of the transportation problem must strictly limit--if not eliminate--the use of private automobiles, at least during certain hours...