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...diplomacy. He was a Republican candidate for Governor of New York, acting Attorney General of the U.S. under Calvin Coolidge and an oft-mentioned presidential possibility. When Franklin D. Roosevelt asked him to form a civilian intelligence service at the outset of World War II, Donovan followed the dictum of Stewart Menzies, his counterpart in the British secret service: "Intelligence is the business of gentlemen." Columnist Drew Pearson accurately described Donovan's fledgling OSS as "one of the fanciest groups of dilettante diplomats, Wall Street bankers and amateur detectives ever seen in Washington...
They haven't lost their understanding of this important rock dictum, as their latest, Songs of the Free clearly demonstrates. From the opening stanzas of "Call Me Up." with lead singer Jon King's observation that. "We're consumed by competition," through the queries in "Of the Instant." "Who owns what you do? Who owns that you use?" the Gang maintains a steady stream of class and social analysis. Yet it is woven into music so original and infectious that it makes you forget about the revolution the Gang wanted to start in the first place. The album...
...says the charges against Donovan were too "nebulous, way out" and "nonspecific." Thus, during the 1981 committee deliberations, according to a top FBI official, Mullen told subordinates: "We've reached the point where we've got to cut it off and move forward." After Mullen's dictum, the official said, "the amount of follow-up investigation [of the leads] was minimal," and evidence unfavorable to Donovan in FBI files in New York City and Newark was left buried...
...information and insert prewritten paragraphs at the push of a button. John Downer, 24, maintains that his Osborne computer did not give him an edge, but admits: "It could become the 20th century equivalent of a note on the shirt cuff." Bowing to the law school's dictum, Downer will be writing his second-semester exams on a portable Smith-Corona. But he is sure the computer will be admitted eventually. Says he: "It's just a question of time...
Hope, in Emily Dickinson's dictum, is the thing with feathers, and so it develops on Zenkali. If Osbert gets his way, the Mockery Bird really will die out, and with it the island. For, in a chain of interdependence as outlandish as nature itself, the Mockeries feed on the fruit of the Ombu tree, remove its outer layer and allow the seed to germinate. The tree grows, plays host to a moth that fertilizes the Amela tree-upon which the island's economy depends. Will the London plutocrats get their way? Will Zenkali perish? Will Peter entice...