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...stinginess of past ones. "A positive declaration of some of the most essential rights," he felt, "could not be obtained in the requisite lattitude." Far better to avoid specific guarantees and let rights evolve with the passage of time. For a bill of rights would in essence be cannon fodder for people such as Bork, who could use it to restrict the scope of the people's rights...
...happen. Up to now though, Hart has run a gaffe-free campaign that provides scant fodder for his hungry rivals. Perhaps his only strategic error was to neglect the Iowa battleground for much of 1986. But Hart's Senate record wins Democratic applause, especially his consistent opposition to Reaganomics and his long advocacy of an oil-import fee. Hart's speeches have grown more evocative and thematic; technocratic details are now left to his position papers, which are voluminous enough to satisfy anyone's hunger for beef...
Signs and portents? No, just the usual April Fools' Day fare from Fleet Street. It was not a bad year. But old-timers agreed that this year's fodder for the gullible did not measure up to the 1957 classic, when BBC TV had viewers believing they were watching footage of peasants busily harvesting pasta from spaghetti trees in an orchard on a Swiss-Italian farm...
...illustrated weekly Ogonyok, which formerly was tedious fodder for waiting-room tables, is now headed by an energetic managing editor who has transformed it into a sharply contentious publication. Znamya magazine has just published Andrei Platonov's Juvenile Sea, which had been sitting in the archives for 52 years...
...present, Dr. Bergius stated, the product was used mostly as fodder for animals, but when necessary it could be converted into food for human consumption...