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Another case whose prosecution would have been impaired without the center's help, in Flannery's opinion, is the Boston desegregation case, which Flannery also successfully argued on behalf of the NAACP before Judge W. Arthur Garrity in the U.S. Court of Appeals last month. "It is fatuous to say the Boston case wouldn't have been brought without the center," Flannery says, "but the center had a major role...
...wouldn't mind having to pay higher taxes and higher prices if our fatuous leaders wouldn't squander the money on nations with infantile policies of aggression. Giving nuclear reactors and know-how to Arab nations is like giving a razor blade to a baby. Nixon was prepared to sacrifice most of his staff to get the Watergate heat off his back. Is he preparing to sacrifice the prosperity of the U.S. and the security of the world...
Moreover, he ruled out "the rather fatuous suggestion that I take the 25th Amendment and just step out and have Vice President Ford step in for a while...
...hampers carried on trains from St. Louis to Boston? The entire book is plagued by a frustrating discrepancy between minute detail and lack of any detail at all. While Matthews describes at length the life of Eliot's friend (and possibly fiancee) Emily Hale with a series of frequently fatuous anecdotes, we learn almost nothing about the influence of Pound upon Eliot's work. Any reasons for this are unclear, since the author was refused access to any really significant information on Emily Hale (the Emily Hale papers) while he was free to study all the Pound documents...
...Abduction from the Seraglio is early Mozart at its best. It's got a whole set of funny, likeable characters, from a sublime but fatuous talking pasha to a ridiculous, ferociously villainous guard who gives up his schemes with a malediction worthy of Malvolio or President Nixon. And it's got some remarkable music, from its opening serenade--Mozart had just got married when he wrote the opera, its heroine is named after his wife--to a sextet (I think) at the end that's so reconciling and beautiful and so on it makes everything Mozart wrote later on seem...