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...nonsense Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stopped by The Hague not long ago to call on her Dutch counterpart, Ruud Lubbers. As conversation turned to their mutual attempts to impose economic austerity, the Dutch Christian Democratic leader outlined his bold program of budgetary cutbacks. Thatcher reacted with feigned dismay. "Mr. Lubbers, are you really intending to cut the salaries of your public employees by more than 3%?" she demanded. "That's a disaster. I am supposed to be the toughest in Europe. You are going to ruin my reputation as the Iron Lady...
...read with dismay the comment by Barbara Walters. She says, "The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition." Walters' premise is that only a liberal cares about those in dire straits or has the answer to the problem. How untrue. How unfair. How naive. How typical...
...more interested in the number of Roman Catholic votes they might gain in 1984. It is known that the White House has sounded out pockets of potential Protestant opposition and found only minimal political damage. However, several organizations, including the National Council of Churches, have expressed their dismay. "I'm appalled," says President James Draper of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant group. More adverse publicity for the Administration could be generated by Senate confirmation of the first Ambassador to the Vatican. He is likely to be Reagan's current personal representative, William Wilson...
...DIFFICULT to read Elizabeth Hardwick's third book of essays. "Bartleby in Manhattan", without a growing sense of irritation and dismay. Hardwick is a wordsmith who cannot, apparently, control her craft; her essays meander and bring one at long last to a denouement of sorts, without ever really engaging one's interest. She writes with constant reference to pundits both past and present, but without really linking her own criticisms and those she cites to form a coherent whole. A Columbia English professor, Hardwick is strongest with literary criticism, but weaker on popular issues. All too often she writes cryptically...
...become legend on the West Coast. It was greeted with jubilation in Berkeley, which had gone into the game 13-point underdogs to the John Elway-led Cardinals. Prominently displayed on California chests this summer were T-shirts diagraming the entire miracle run. The loss brought shock and dismay to the Stanford fans, who immediately began slotting revenge...