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...powers potentially at a President's disposal are awesome, but they also are limited. They are limited by the Constitution, by statute, by custom, and by what may be politically, diplomatically or militarily possible in any given situation. But we need a strong presidency for the '80s. This need transcends party, personality and ideology. It does not mean an "imperial" presidency. But it does mean that whoever holds the office must be prepared and permitted to wield its powers boldly when necessary - and also that he must be both astute and discriminating in recognizing when such action...
...disagreeable custom to which one is too easily led by the harshness of the discussions, to assume evil intentions. It is necessary to be gracious as to intentions: one should believe them good, and apparently they are; but we do not have to be gracious at all to inconsistent logic or to absurd reasoning. Bad logicians have committed more involuntary crimes than bad men have done intentionally. Pierre S. duPont...
...about the manner in which Hawthorne fuses art and human sinfulness." Mellow even suggests, in an absurd simplification of Hawthorne's complex understanding of sin, that the sense of evil which pervades The Scarlet Letter resulted from Hawthorne's bitterness after failing to retain his appointment in the Salem Custom House. Mellow's analysis of The Blithedale Romance is similarly superficial, and makes the mistake of crediting Hawthorne with remarks that are made by his narrator. At the end of his discussion of Hawthorne's novels, Mellow concludes, somewhat simplistically, that "there was an obsessive side to Hawthorne's fictional...
...August day in 1955 Pete Seeger was brought before a House Un-American Activities subcommittee. He was asked, according to the custom of the day, to recite the names of every Communist he knew. The folk singer politely declined, but with a fine sense of the symbolic, offered to stage a little recital for the committee chairman, Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania: "I know many beautiful songs from your home county...
Casey also believes that the stocks of small natural-resource companies are good for short-term speculation. He has a dim view of the current craze for buying such collectibles as artworks or beer cans. But he makes two exceptions: custom-made knives and antique Greek, Roman and medieval coins. Casey happens to collect both of these himself. He inveighs against investing in U.S. real estate, arguing that the market has already peaked. He advises people to rent, rather than buy, housing. One of Casey's most urgent suggestions: get your money out of the U.S. and into...