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...gift is an ordinary one: he can only find water under dry land. Tsari has more profound talents: in trances she can heal wounds, commune with animals and see the human soul. It is a secret that she comes in time to share-with ambiguous and perhaps dire results...
Glikes's contention is that Kearns's has been "badly hurt and badly used' by Goodwin, to effect contract that would assure them $130,000 more in advances. He has said that Goodwin's financial situation is "extremely dire," and the last time I spoke with him, he urged me to do more reporting, explaining, "Doris didn't need the $130,000, and that's the sad part about it--somebody else did... That's where this story can be broken wide open...
...must take the jolly old biscuit. The idea of Jeeves as a club waiter serving "gin stengahs" (whatever they may be) is lamentable. For the rest, your reviewer has unfortunately let his anti-limey prejudices get the better of him, and his cliches and mixed metaphors are too dire for comment...
...week to address it and the nation in his first major foreign policy address, he, like too many U.S. Presidents before him, found himself entangled in the toils of Viet Nam. The fresh start, the global vision, the new priorities would all have to wait once more on the dire exigencies of Viet Nam. But there was indeed a new factor: Ford faced a predicament unprecedented in U.S. history. His first concern could not even be candidly expressed. It was the delicate and dangerous task of extricating 5,000* Americans from an allied nation, South Viet Nam, that seemed...
...Cassandra tone typifies Simon's current role-and his questionable future in Government. Once supremely confident of his ability to deal with what he called the nation's "infinitely solvable" economic problems, he now sees himself as the sound-money "conscience" of the Government, repeating dire warnings that he knows few politicians want to hear. To a nation frightened by the deepest recession and highest unemployment since before Pearl Harbor, Simon insists that inflation is the greater long-run peril. To a Congress bent on cutting taxes and raising spending far more than the Administration wants, Simon endlessly...