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McGovern has made errors in judgment. But none of his mistakes can compare to the horrible and intentional errors of his opponent. The upcoming election presents clear moral alternatives. A vote for Richard Nixon will further the sweep of destruction outside and the creep of decay within. A vote for McGovern is a hope that tomorrow will be better than today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Choose Life | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

...dialogue is convincing and engrossing, O'Neill rarely achieves eloquence. Like the farm girl, Josie, the audience is surprised to hear poetry: "the night I promised I'd give you has just begun, our night that'll be different from all the others, with a dawn that won't creep over dirty window panes but will wake in the sky like a promise of God's peace in the soul's dark sadness. Will you listen to me Jim! I must be a poet." But the sensitivity and experience of the Loeb cast imbue the language with a special grace...

Author: By Elizabeth Samuels, | Title: Extreme Unction | 7/18/1972 | See Source »

Short Memories. Interest rates have begun to creep up again, as more and more banks are raising their prime rate to above 5¼% - a move that may have a ripple-up effect on home-mortgage and auto-loan rates. Moreover, the nation has lost billions of dollars in unrealized profits and wages because the President undertook a disastrous campaign to slow the economy early in his Administration. Nixon's economic advisers are counting on voters having short memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PHASED: High Half-Time Score | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...brilliant career. Norman, a graduate student in mathematics who, with inordinate sense of purpose, sets himself aflame when he turns against the war. Shelly, the prototypical early-hippie who sprinkles her conversation with "far-outs" the way other people use casual obscenities. Dick, underneath the smooth exterior a creep held over from the fifties who's reported to be making it with his tutor's wife. Most importantly, Mike and Cootie, two blithe spirits, masters of the put-on, who pretend to hold-the show together through the incantatory appeal of their preposterous school-boy jive...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Moonchildren | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

...certain position to maintain. For years Mrs. Aslett (or perhaps it was Haslett: no one know) has come in every day except Sunday to cock and clean, My grandmother is fond of her in an irritated sort of way: "She's a good soul, but she does creep about the house...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: A State of Welfare | 3/24/1972 | See Source »

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