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...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...
Convincing the nation that an ultraexpensive rearmament program is necessary and deciding on its approximate size were the opening, and easiest, steps in getting the buildup going. Now comes the far more difficult job of making hard choices about exactly what that mountain of money should be used to buy?and what ought to be bought first...
...going to have to resolve this. The easiest way is for people who didn't serve in those years to come off this pretentiousness of moral commitment and realize that the guys who went to combat are the ones who suffered the most. They are also the ones who gave the most." For that reason, Webb believes, the Viet Nam vets "in the aggregate are probably the strongest people in their age group...