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...cancel each other out. The drama tries for realism, indicts mankind for the universal greed and gullibility upon which parasites like the Flim Flam Man prosper. But the actors who play his prey all deliver caricatures instead of portraits in a gallery of outlandish Southern yahoos such as never dwelt outside Dogpatch...
President Johnson's State of the Union Message dwelt heavily on what has become a consistent theme for the administration: the need for a national exercise of will to fight a distant and discouraging war and simultaneously to solve complex, thorny domestic problems...
...gifts ranging from a brace of albino kangaroos to miniature Samoan canoes, he was accorded an impressive measure of approval-occasionally in spite of himself. Too often, the President seemed somewhat heavyhanded, particularly in his ponderous praise for Prime Minister Holt and his references to American affluence. He dwelt endlessly on his own limited wartime service in New Zealand and Australia; and his martial derring-do sounded more Mittyesque with each telling, until, at Melbourne's airport, he conjured up a picture of Navy Lieut. Commander Johnson side by side with the Aussies "in the trenches," battling the Japanese...
Indeed, Beardsley dwelt in quite a new world, a velvet underground tolerated by Victorians in literature and art as long as it wore the air of fantasy. His frontispiece for John Davidson's The Wonderful Mission of Earl Lavender of 1895 shows a barely bosomed lady flagellating a middle-sexed supplicant, wielding the most fragile of whips as if it were a fan at high...
Speaking his sermon in thickly accented English, the Pope dwelt on Christ's seventh beatitude, "Blessed are the peacemakers." Said Paul: "If we truly wish to be Christians, we must love peace. We must conform our minds to the thought of peace...