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Rhetorical Flourish. This will undoubtedly come as a shock to the millions of young people who boast of their vitality and their commitment to causes and intense relationships. Yet Kosinski sees them as living well within a more or less familiar totalitarian spectrum. They are, he thinks, "victims of a collective image which, like ubiquitous television, engulfs us." A rhetorical flourish, perhaps. But it comes from a man who has transcended far more sinister totalitarianisms by leaving nothing to Chance...
Picture a concert pianist of great technical skill whose fingers race across the keyboard like a riptide. Suddenly his face turns soulful, as if he were attempting to hang each note in the air like a snowflake. With a brisk, dryly ironic flourish he brings the composition to its close. But through the entire piece, the instrument has been soundless...
...supported the Shea Bill must now see that their idealism is being outmaneuvered and subverted. At a time when the government is unresponsive to the people on the conduct of the war strong opposition is needed. Faith in our democratic institutions-as McGovern would have it-does not flourish in a system where the institutions are antidemocratic. While the military conducts devastating war against Southeast Asia, American politics become more seclusive...
...from the World Bank, the U.S. and Britain. But when Nasser began talking about seeking funds from Moscow too, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles decided to punish him by revoking Washington's pledge. Britain and the World Bank thereupon also reneged. Moscow moved in with a flourish, eventually lending Cairo $554 million of the dam's $800 million cost. The Russians also supplied 2,000 technicians to work with 35,000 Egyptian laborers (200 of whom died during construction) and equipment to move 10 million loads of earth...
...December 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts unveiled with a flourish its newest treasure-a small and exquisite portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga attributed to Raphael. A cloud of questions arose-especially how and where the museum had obtained the painting. In an unprecedented move last week, the U.S. Bureau of Customs seized the Raphael, claiming that it had been smuggled into America without declaration...