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Again this week, Nixon has attempted to shift the emphasis and divert the momentum of the House Judiciary Committee's quickening pace toward impeachment...
...condemn the Boston School Committee for playing upon many white people's racist fears to divert attention from its own failure to educate Boston's schoolchildren. We believe that the problems of Boston's schools are not caused by students, white or black (as the School Committee would have us believe) but by the School Committee's refusal to provide adequate facilities, teachers, or materials...
...agents think that the S.L.A. spokesman who calls himself "General Field Marshal Cinque" may be only a front man used to divert attention from the cadre's real leaders, who may include Mrs. Nancy Ling Perry, 26, and other radical white women. Mrs. Perry is the daughter of a Santa Rosa, Calif., furniture dealer and a graduate of Berkeley-the same school that Patty was attending when she was seized. Until last fall, Mrs. Perry was living with Joseph Remiro, 27, and Russell Jack Little, 24, two white S.L.A. members who have been charged with the killing last November...
Speed, however, has proved to be a more marketable commodity than elegance. Never able to divert enough passengers from the jets, the France lost $24 million last year and could lose three times as much in 1974 because of soaring fuel costs. Thus, although the French attach great importance to symbols of national prestige, the Minister of Transport announced last week that the government could no longer "ignore the pressing economic problems of the day." The subsidies to the ship, which is two-thirds government-owned, will end this spring, and the $80 million France will...
...turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; not an expression of personality, but an escape from personality" that Eliot demanded of himself as a poet in his essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. And with the Impersonal Theory of Poetry Eliot sought to divert his readers' interest from the poet to the poetry through self-sacrifice, the extinction of personality. The "heap of broken images" which is The Waste Land possesses no single central consciousness, only a conglomeration of very different speaking voices...