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...attempt to organize a tightly-organized convention, the GOP has projected an image of unity behind the banner of conservatism. By dint of the overwhelming majority of right-wingers gathered, the Republicans have demonstrated a remarkable intolerance for differing perspectives. By systematic suppression of dissent, the party is unwittingly undermining rather than reinforcing the precepts of democracy...
...fishing wasn't that great," Zewinski says, but the Harvard squad that arrived for the fishfest by dint of a ten-hour ferry ride from Portsmouth, Maine was never disappointed in the least. "It's basically a good time," says Hughes. The team lost little time in starting to enjoy themselves, beginning with the gambling casino on board the Portsmouth ferry...
...this cynicism and lassitude still leaves Greene stranded, it does serve to throw a lot of weighty-sounding words into the air: piety, belief, hope, despair, loneliness, love...By sheer dint of having bandied these concepts about for so many years, Greene has gained a reputation for possessing a dose of profundity. Yet Greene's is a worldly wisdom that is never fully-earned. It is a posture of knowing pessimism that we are expected to take as an a priori supposition, and which Greene keeps us from questioning too deeply with his fleeting, almost cinematic prose; he gives...
...main offices from San Francisco-America's rock & roll center at the time of Rolling Stone's founding a decade ago-to-the center of media glamour and respectability, Manhattan. Wenner then reaped another bumper crop of publicity when he cultivated the acquaintance of two pseudocelebrities (famous only by dint of their surnames). William Randolph Hearst III and Jack Ford, and gave them a magazine supposedly all their own, Outside...
...counsel of Byrd. The majority leader at first found Carter aloof and inflexible, disliked his early criticisms of Congress and resented his refusal to follow advice on how to handle the Senate. Though both men are products of the rural South, having made it to the top by dint of single-minded persistence, Carter's remote manner irritated Byrd. But after realizing that the majority leader's predictions of senatorial behavior were unerringly accurate, Carter began listening. He actively sought Byrd's advice on the Lance affair and accepted his judgment that the Budget Director...