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...really dwell upon your vertebrae too long, for soon enough you are asked to take your place in a large circle with all the dancers in the room. All the dancers form this circle and look across and sideways at one another shyly or with some contempt. And the very good dancers check to see that their knees and toes are turned out at just the proper angle, and the very pretty dancers draw deep breaths to flatten their tummies, and the very smug dancers continue to look blase and shake their legs, like world-weary professionals...
Americans are increasingly choosing to dwell where the sun often shines, or near water. Half the U.S. now lives within 50 miles of a seacoast or the Great Lakes. The fast gainers in the 1960s were middle-sized metropolitan areas (pop. 700,000 to 2,000,000) in California, Arizona and Texas. Among them: Anaheim-Santa Ana, up 100.2%; San Jose, up 65%; Phoenix, up 45%; San Bernardino-Riverside, up 39%; and Houston...
Speaking to the Governors on the night of his arrival, Agnew provided his most candid analysis to date of the Republicans' fortunes last November. He did not dwell on the victories. Instead, Agnew sought to dissociate himself from the losses. "The causes of victory or defeat in a political election are as opaque and indefinable after as before the vote," he said. As for charges that his steel-studded rhetoric during the campaign was a divisive weapon, Agnew declared, "Nothing is more unreasonable to me. What is an election if it is not an attempt to divide the voters...
Just before Thanksgiving, Simon and Schuster released a book which no one will want to read while eating-Mark Lane's Conversations with Americans consists of 32 tape-recorded interviews with Vietnam veterans that dwell on acts of brutality and the psychology of the armed forces which primes our soldiers for them. Reading this book is like taking a ride in a spin-dry Laundromat filled with blood. Approximately one-fourth of the way into the book, there remains nothing for the most naive reader to discover, and the same events keep repeating themselves in wave after inexorable wave...
...missed the point of Charles Reich's The Greening of America [Nov. 2] and misinterpreted much of what he says. It is true that some of his writing reeks with "incense," and some of the points he chooses to dwell upon are all too obvious. Unfortunately they are obvious only to some of us. Professor Reich has managed to put many things in proper perspective for those of us who feel that our objectives have all too often been empty or off the track, and who cannot feel that achieving these objectives has been rewarding in any true sense...