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...clear that he intends to carry through on the many basic reforms that Castello began. So moved was he by the task facing him that at his first Cabinet meeting he broke into tears. "I hope to God," he said softly, "to live up to expectations and not to disappoint my country or my people...
...country. It would be to have two great conservative parties between which it might be possible to choose at random. And it would be to have liberalism as feckless, irrelevant and intellectually obsolete as Time in its more thoughtful moments regularly proclaims it to be. We shall continue to disappoint their words. And the Democratic Party will be either a liberal party or -- as Harry Truman rightly observed -- it will be a losing party. And while Democrats, from time to time, will unquestionably try the experiment of running without liberal support, they will, as invariably in the past, lose...
...applications continue to pile in at the present rate, the summer school would probably have to devise a policy of selective admissions to many of the courses. "It probably wouldn't work on the first-come, first-served principle," Crooks said, "but I'd sure hate to disappoint a fellow who had come all the way from Omaha and had filed his application in January...
...Harvard should disappoint them once again go ahead next week to polish off Yale for at least half of the Ivy League crown...
That is about all John Updike has to say in his fourth novel, which will disappoint those admirers who have been waiting hopefully for a major talent to produce a major work. Instead of expanding, the Updike compass appears to be narrowing, as if its wielder were desirous of proving that he can, if need be, engrave his graceful arabesques on the head of a pin. Of the Farm barely qualifies as a novel; it is too brief, inactive and unambitious. But as a delicate cameo that freezes three people in postures that none of them finds comfortable...