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McGovern continued insistently if not very optimistically to challenge Nixon to come forth from the political sanctuary of the White House and debate the issues. It was probably a forlorn hope. As McGovern tried to flush Nixon out, the President remained intent on his own formula for reelection, which includes working at intricate Viet Nam scenarios. One of them, Nixon hopes, might yet make good the G.O.P. promise that by November, the issue of Viet Nam will have receded into relative insignificance...
...argument is an elitist, aristocratic, white man's conspiracy to lock them into perpetual poverty. It would do little good to stop growth in the U.S. if it raged on in Algeria and Indonesia. At minimum, people would have to be told that they could not buy the flush toilets or transistor radios that they desire because computers had decreed that no more resources could be invested in producing them. Corporations would have a hard time expanding; for every one that did expand, another company would have to contract. Could freedom of speech survive? Demagogues would surely promise comfort...
...Trumper's sex life is painfully complicated by a medical complaint that might embarrass even Alexander Portnoy. Unable to commit himself to risky surgery, Trumper opts for "the water method"-a sloppy palliative that requires him to drink huge amounts of water before and after intercourse to flush himself...
...flush out his life, however. Bogus flees his family and goes to Austria to search for a diabetic friend, who unbeknown to him has died-another illusory hero image. What follows vacillates between brutal reality and hallucination, comedy and pathos. Eventually, Bogus comes to see himself as Moby Dick, "mindful of his scars, his old harpoons and things," knowing that his very endurance is in itself monumental...
...right of profession: just as, in most states, a priest does not have to breach the contract of confession, and a lawyer is protected in discussions with a client accused of a felony, so should a reporter be able to use the guarantee of confidentiality to flush out information which hastens the pursuit of justice...