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...chance-taking-ex-driller, McMahon climbed into his private plane (in which he flies 200,000 miles yearly), set out on a tour of U.S. gas capitals to persuade Fish and his associates to let Canada into the deal. Since pipeliners and oilmen continually drift around the North American continent in their private planes, the negotiations drifted, like some gigantic floating poker game, between Houston, Washington, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. Finally the oilmen came to terms, and last week the private planes converged on Tulsa (it happened to be the most central spot that day) to sign...
Ironically, the Hutterites' own fertility may end their way of life. To support its booming population, the sect must enlarge its settlements, increase farm holdings by 500,000 acres. As the sect expands, many younger Hutterites may inevitably drift away to "the outside world" that their elders have so long avoided...
...Throw away the comic books," "Close down the TV stations," "Return to breastfeeding," and "Get tough with them." But, he adds, "really to understand what is happening to youth requires psychological knowledge. Both the basic tendencies of modern youth-to 'act out' and to drift into herds-are symptoms of a psychiatric condition, worldwide in scope, related di rectly to the social and political temper of our times. There is only one mental aberration in which these two symptoms coexist: in the psychopathic personality, essentially antisocial, conscienceless, inclined to violence in behavior, and liable to loss of identity...
...reflect what he himself considered the weakest part of his character. Few of his poems pass muster today; they are the lush, overripe productions of a man who got "a curious joy" (a "kick" is the modern word; out of being "spendthrift of my own genius" and let himself "drift with every passion till my soul / Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play...
NOTHING, it seems, can stop the slow westward drift of Western art. Its center has passed inexorably, though with innumerable minor eddies, from Athens to Rome to Paris. Now it is shifting westward once again, to Manhattan...