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...that much. He has moxie, and no suspicion that he could possibly be wrong-about anything. As a prep school student, we are told, he crashed a faculty meeting to accuse a teacher of robbing him of the right to express his political views in class, then proceeded to expound to the stunned faculty on the virtues of isolationism and the political ignorance of the school staff. He attacked his alma mater in God and Man at Yale hardly before the ink had dried on his diploma. He has run a noisy third for Mayor of New York and called...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: The Right The Governor Misseth | 3/27/1971 | See Source »

...even sterility has its uses. If Pluche must lie fallow for a few weeks, he can at least write a journal about it. Nothing goes to waste: stinginess is not only close to his Gallic heart; it is a law of nature. Besides, writing gives him the chance to expound on his dearest personal fancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ecstasy Without Agony | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...demonstrate, why do we march right into riot sticks and gas cannisters, why do we expound on genocide abroad and corporate oligarchy at home if not for "them?" Is it worth it, we ask, to contemptuously thumb our nose at the avenues to wealth and power that a Harvard degree and modicum of ambition entail, if "they" don't appreciate our sacrifice? Could "they" hate us so much if "they" realized what true friends we really...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Confessions of a Long-Haried Aristocrat | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

Other witnesses included Associate Medical Examiner Donald Mills, who said that he had repeated earlier public testimony that Mary Jo's death was due solely to drowning. Scuba Diver John Farrar told of how he recovered Miss Kopechne's body, but was not permitted to expound on his theory that Mary Jo could have lived for some time by breathing from an air pocket at the rear of the overturned car. Deputy Sheriff Huck Look was asked about the black car with at least two people in it that he had seen near Dike Bridge about an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Inquest on Chappaquiddick | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...rationally observe that my future draft status is no shakier than it was on Monday afternoon. I can calmly expound on the illusory nature of the differences between the old and new systems. I can playfully belt my roommate, who drew =336, or the guy upstairs, who ranks =366 (for real...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Death The Numbers Game | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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