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...same phrases ("We want to be able to prepare for the worst" or "The day of cheap energy is over"). If people stop listening, that could badly hurt Simon's program, which depends greatly on voluntary cooperation. In particular, public boredom with Simon could foil his attempts to dispel the growing suspicion that the energy shortage is a phony...
...schools,* the N.C.A.A. delegates' only other major recruiting decision was to reject a proposal to restrict recruiting contacts with prospects. Instead, they voted to let collegiate athletes play one sport professionally without losing the right to compete in other college sports. The unexpected decision hardly seems calculated to dispel the play-for-pay attitude that is prevalent on so many campuses...
While the two leads can scarcely dispel the powerful memory of the 1958 Lunt-Fontanne production, they establish their own interpretations with unstrained validity. Rachel Roberts brings a commandingly icy meanness to Clara while hinting at a lost tenderness. In recent seasons, John McMartin has established himself as an actor of distinctive range. He has played the disenchanted author in Follies, the skeptical servant Sganarelle in Moliere's Don Juan, and the mask-divided soul Dion Anthony in O'Neill's The Great God Brown. Now, as the hero of The Visit, he is initially bland, wistfully...
...This power plant we're proposing is the first one of its kind in this part of the country for many years," Charles Steele, an AP&L spokesman, said yesterday. "One picture is worth a thousand words, and seeing actual plants in operation helps to dispel some of the fears people have...
Mutual Distrust. The talks apparently did nothing to dispel the sense of mutual distrust that has long plagued Kissinger's relations with Japan. Both sides issued bland statements to the effect that Kissinger "understood Japan's serious predicament." But the phraseology was diplomatic euphemism. After Tanaka explained Japan's economic predicament, Kissinger's rather cold-nosed reply was that while he understood the situation, the state of the Japanese economy and what to do about it was not really his problem...