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ready to be President. His contempt for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed so bitterly at the time of the Bay of Pigs, evolved into the realization that sometimes they knew better than he did. "I did not know enough to ask the right questions," he admitted. One night at dinner Kennedy confessed to friends that Khrushchev turned out to be different from any person he had ever met or imagined. J.F.K.'s experience up to then had suggested that Khrushchev would share his fear of a nuclear exchange and pledge himself to do almost anything to avoid...
Dukakis's relationship with the legislative leadership has gone from the mutually undisguised contempt of 1975 to the present civilized, working compatibility. Most liberals in the legislature are still wary of Dukakis on certain issues. Frank's understandings with White and McGee have made it unnecessary for him to rely on Dukakis's administration for favors; as a result, Dukakis aides respect Frank far more than he respects Dukakis, and the administration needs him more than he needs them...
...couple of hours, into a gale of moral ambivalence? Moreover, we first meet him and his elite unit in Warsaw, putting themselves at risk in a vain attempt to rescue a young Jewish woman from the SS. Thus they are immediately established as gallant lads, holding nothing but contempt for deplorable national policies they have, in any case, been too busy on the Russian front to consider very deeply...
...court reduced the authority of federal courts to interfere in some state court civil proceedings. Specifically at issue: under New York law, a creditor with an unpaid judgment can summon the debtor to testify about his assets. If the debtor fails to show up, he may be cited for contempt of court and ultimately sent to jail. A lower federal court held the New York procedure unconstitutional. The Supreme Court reversed the ruling, declaring that the debtor should have raised his constitutional claim in the state court. Expanding the doctrine known as "abstention," the court declared that state contempt proceedings...
...Didion book is free of subliminal aggression: among Charlotte's accomplishments is the ability to perform emergency tracheotomies. She can also catch chickens and snap their necks with one smooth motion. Warren is a monstrous lout and a failure whose "face had been coarsened by contempt," whose "mind had been coarsened by self-pity." Their daughter Marin ("good strong hair and an I.Q. of about 103") grows up to be a skyjacker and a fugitive Marxist. Her resemblance to Patty Hearst can hardly be coincidental. Charlotte's second husband is also a familiar type out of the recent...