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...nonviolent civil rights and antiwar groups, trampling on the rights of citizens to express grievances against their Government... As an administrator, he was an erratic, unchallengeable czar, banishing agents to Siberian posts on whimsy, terrorizing them with torrents of implausible rules, insisting on conformity of thought as well as dress. --TIME...
...lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, walked timidly into the Harvard president’s outer office...
...fragile liberties have been dramatically at risk since the 1970s when the white-shirt-blue-suit-discreet-tie FBI reinvented itself from a corps of 'generalists,' trained in law and accounting, into a confrontational 'Special Weapons and Tactics' (aka SWAT) Green Beret-style army of warriors who like to dress up in camouflage or black ninja clothing and, depending on the caper, ski masks." Note the penultimate noun in that sentence: in Vidal's account, it's those who job it is to fight crime who are the criminals, and who pull the "capers...
...would have had an easier time selling When Grubman Attacks! But The Hamptons' antisensationalism--occasionally to the point of dullness--is also its strength. It avoids cheap shots, even at a couple who model their wedding on Sean (P. Diddy) Combs' famous "white party" by having their guests dress up like Good Humor men. It treats the swank partygoers and the workers setting up the shrimp-cocktail bar with equal sympathy. Like Gatsby, The Hamptons shows how a summer place comes to represent and be changed by the dreams and appetites of the people who love and consume...
...There are a thousand ways to dress well, and a thousand ways to teach effectively,” Muirhead said. “As everyone has to find his or her own style, so every teacher has to find his or her own voice...