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...mother's predictions. I was no good and I'd never be any good. I went to Mass every Sunday, and every Sunday I'd say, 'I'll confess.' I couldn't. I'd go into the confession box and choke on the words. When you abuse your child, it seems like you're watching someone else do it. There is guilt, horror, pain. Society need not hate us. We hate ourselves. No one hates an abusing parent more than the abusing parent...
...record strength delights American tourists, but could choke the recovery
...together have spent more than two centuries on this planet, assembled on the chilled South Lawn of the White House. Ronald Reagan, 72, signed cheerfully. Thomas P. O'Neill, 70, spoke passionately. Congressman Claude Pepper, 82, gave his fervent blessing. Three months ago they were ready to choke one another. Now they smiled...
...outlines a never-completed novel about lives in transition. There are amorous adventures and travels to Greece, Haiti and New Mexico. He continues to survey the literary scene with visits to a suspicious and embittered Evelyn Waugh, to a mourning John Dos Passos, "whose voice would seem about to choke or tremble," and to a Roman convent where Philosopher George Santayana "slept, in his plain single bed, in the consciousness of the whole human mind...
President Reagan's attacks on high interest rates in general have helped to fuel the furor. Reagan, apparently fearing that heavy borrowing costs could choke off the recovery, renewed his criticism last week while denouncing a banking industry drive against withholding taxes on dividends and interest. Snapped he: "It would be far better if the bankers spent less time lobbying and more time lowering interest rates." Reagan began trying to talk down rates in February by charging that they were too high in relation to the current low level of inflation. That argument suffered little last week when...