Word: easiest
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Probably the easiest and by far the cheapest way of getting to New Haven...
...Harvard pedigree to the cause of supply-side's credibility was Martin Feldstein. He designed models to prove that poor people save less than rich, while a college classmate of his, George Gilder, added new dimensions to the word "reactionary" with a primitive anthropology that explained why. The easiest convert was the old gunslinger himself--the untested theories gave presidential candidate Ronald Reagan more ground than the traditional hymns to patriotism and loyalty allowed him to stand on. But the most coveted was a young congressman from Michigan, a midwestern farmboy with strong sensibilities for justice and equity a college...
...they're lovely people, they're wonderful, they're just letting themselves be enslaved. I don't think people want to be free. I think people like bondage, unfortunately. It's more easily done here in America because everybody believes that they're free, and those are the easiest people to control...
Yearning for the small town or tight city neighborhood that once was theirs, or if not was encoded on their genes, these Middle Americans are the easiest targets for the companies that enjoy so much advertising from this 21-hour extravaganza. Damn, they'd like to go to a real old-fashioned store, where people knew you and the food was good. But there aren't many of those in Lynn anymore; they've been driven out by the Seven-Elevens and the Hickory Farms--both big telethon friends--where you can find: dirty magazines in a rack...
...embrace of opera, Harbison has rediscovered the primacy of the human voice. Not that he wants to write like Verdi. "I'm not nostalgic for tonality," he says. "It is one of the easiest ways of getting a response from an audience, and I'm not terribly interested in it. But you have to let the voice expand. The voice is what holds the listener in the theater...