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...Neither childish retribution, misread signs, weekend anxiety nor the absence of 32 Senators can justify such a colossal blunder...
...legislator from the conservative Americans for Constitutional Action. At the same time his strong opposition to key White House proposals?the ABM, the SST, the Carswell and Haynsworth Supreme Court nominations?has won him the Administration's unfailing hostility. Nixon's Director of Communications, Herb Klein, accuses him of "childish tantrums, demagoguery at its worst...
...Childish Retribution. The Senate's unexpected action came only four nights after the U.S. had suffered a humiliating defeat in the United Nations, failing to persuade many of the nations that had long enjoyed U.S. financial support to join in the vain fight to keep Taiwan in the U.N. Although the causes were actually complex and long-building, to much of the outside world the Senate's rejection of the Administration's foreign aid bill smacked of childish retribution -the act of a bully lashing out because his shins had been kicked. Leaping to conclusions, the London...
...reasons of friendship, but out of a searching adolescent curiosity, heightened by upwardly-mobile ambition. And though the hall and lawns continuously awe him, it is the rulers, the adults, the gentlemen and ladies who ignore him, who fascinate him. Even the hall can be a setting for childish games, and its acquiescent housekeepers offer some degree of home comfort. But the elder Maudsleys are to Leo mythical figures, inhabitants of yet-another distant country. Beneath the way of life they share with him, the feel incomprehensible things; Leo is determined to understand their recondite passions...
...like myself," says Marcello Masfroianni in a lavishly self-flagellatory article in the September McCall's. "I never did, even physically. I don't like my body when I look at myself naked. These childish legs and arms. I don't like my face, with this short nose and these fleshy lips. I'm cute. And a man must not be cute." Other admissions: "I'm ignorant. After ten pages of a book, my eyes close. I can't even read the newspaper. I don't feel at ease with American women. They...