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...began with the Depression and New Deal, World War II and F.D.R.'s own immense zest for power. The atomic bomb added an awesome new dimension to presidential responsibility, though the first two nuclear-age Presidents had a nice way of not taking themselves too seriously. Truman was fond of remarking that any of a million other men (this was pre-Women's Lib) were as well qualified to be President. Ike had a genial instinct that the republic would still be standing tomorrow morning if he played a round of golf this afternoon...
...more than a woman who interests only because she switches her personalities on and off to fit the needs of the plot? The answer lies in the difference between Hitchcock's best films and the vacuity we expect in the typical film from American-International. As De Palma is fond of pointing out, Hitchcock at his best is much more than a technical master of plot and camerawork...
With so little time remaining before the scheduled unveiling date of May 29, speedy coordination between the City and the Kennedy Corporation over the design is necessary. Without this planning, the Kennedy Library will be just a collection of fond trivia -- a valentine from Caroline, a coconut shell from PT 109, an ivory model boat from Nikita Khrushchev -- within a Harvard Square disrupted by tourists clicking their Instamatics...
...arrived in 1971, has maintained and strengthened the alliance. As a result, the BGA, rather somnolent for most of its 50 years, now has influence out of all proportion to its membership (1,400) and its annual budget ($200,000). Brunner himself is something of a crusader. He is fond of stopping in midsentence, pounding his desk and exclaiming: "Damn it, people shouldn't take bribes!" Not the least of BGA'S accomplishments has been to increase press interest in investigations...
...dead, now that his successors are gray and conventional, it is the implausible figure of Muammar Gaddafi that has acquired the role of an Arab Parsifal. He is a mere 31 years old, handsome, devout, ardent, even fanatical. "The Arabs need to be told the facts," he is fond of saying. "The Arabs need someone to make them weep, not someone to make them laugh." Nasser once told the young Gaddafi: "You remind me of myself when I was your age." Gaddafi was profoundly moved. To be the new Nasser is his obsession-to succeed where Nasser failed...