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...Yalta revelations fill me with a sense of shame . . . that my country has negotiated its foreign policy from the stand point of spiritual apostasy and moral weakness rather than of strength . . . The Eisenhower-Dulles regime marks the wholesome arrest of a drift in foreign relations, but something more than a plea for changeless principle is needed. Sin and redemption are still primary reference points for national survival...
Nothing Improper? Before they met, Pat (formerly Sandra Wisotsky) already knew a lot about life. When she was 16, she passed out in the apartment of a friend, after an evening of drinking. When she woke up, she was pregnant. After the baby came, she began to drift horizontally toward café society. When she was 18, on one momentous night, she ran into Jelke. It was sex at first sight. That night Pat moved into Mickey's apartment...
...political gladiators-William Gibbs McAdoo of California and Al Smith of New York-kept the old Madison Square Garden in an uproar, the delegations hopelessly split, the Alabama delegation doggedly casting "24 votes for Underwood" and the convention stalemated. Finally, after the 80th ballot, the deadlocked delegates began to drift away from Smith and McAdoo, and the nomination was left to a field of also-rans...
...distance-bus passengers huddling in a small-town eatery, the author of Picnic sounds no great depths and stirs no new currents, and he clutches sentiment to the same degree that he shrugs off story. But at its own level, Bus Stop is fresh and engaging. In catching the drift, and once or twice shifting the direction of his characters' lives, Inge has revealed the surface and something of the underside of all anonymous humanity. And by writing with pervasive, even explosive humor-by showing that the way to man's heart can be through his funny bone...
...institutions in the U.S. is Illinois' Manteno State Hospital, 45 miles south of Chicago. Rated for 5,000 patients, it holds 8,200. Its physical plant, dating from the 1930s, is reasonably modern. In its overcrowded red brick buildings, Psychiatrist Dean C. Tasher had seen hundreds of patients drift downhill to the "very disturbed" wards where they persisted in lying naked on the floor in their own filth, and some eventually to the hydrotherapy ward, where they had to be kept in tubs or wet packs for most...