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...breakthrough above 1000, says Economist J. Kenneth Galbraith, "will encourage the susceptible, but mostly it was useful to people who needed an excuse to get drunk." Nobel Prizewinner Paul Samuelson views the feat as "a belated recognition of what has been happening to the rate of growth of the economy." The main question, he believes, is why the index took so long to break...
...Biden ran for the New Castle County Council (which includes Wilmington) and won by a large margin despite the fact that the district was 65% Republican. That feat won him an appointment to a commission charged with rejuvenating the Democratic state party. Biden so charmed the local politicians that they pressed him to run against Republican Governor Russell Peterson in this fall's election. Although Democratic polls showed him ahead of Peterson, Biden held out for the more difficult Senate contest...
...dancing leads and false breaks on the base paths worried more than one pitcher into committing a balk or a wild pitch. He also made a specialty of the game's most thrilling play; before he retired from baseball in 1956, Jackie had stolen home eleven times, a feat that has not been equaled since...
...helps us to understand the roots of liberal hatred for the image of Nixon. Trick E. Dixon epitomizes the most evil, calculating and self-serving ambition. He is totally amoral. When he is assassinated, thousands pour into Washington, each hoping to be arrested as the one who accomplished the feat...
This theatrical decade of short cuts is perfectly epitomized by Dude, a bulging trash basket of a musical, and an open declaration of total aesthetic bankruptcy. It combines the worst of Hair with the worst of Jesus Christ Superstar-a void-plumbing feat. Dude unravels a numbingly incomprehensible allegory ranging from the dawn of creation to the limbo of suburbia, or some thing like that. Galt MacDermot's rock score is a wall of inchoate sound, and Tom O'Horgan stage-manages this debacle like a mass epileptic convulsion...