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...President's foray into the Midwest was designed partly to take television time and headlines away from his critics. He had intended to talk only about his New Federalism proposals, which would have the Federal Government assume the full costs of Medicaid and give the states more than 40 programs, including food stamps and welfare. But when Reagan's critics charged that the President had proposed the New Federalism to take attention away from his economic problems, White House aides urged Reagan to confront the spending furor directly. "It's better to face it than...
...together, and in the morning shadow of the Washington Monument, commemorating the man who guided the Revolution. It is ground where the Viet Nam protesters marched and tented ("It is our turn on the Mall," says Scruggs) and the place where the haunted Richard Nixon prowled in his dawn foray to the camp of the peace marchers. The monument will be just seven blocks from the White House, where John Kennedy guided the first hesitant step into Viet Nam and Lyndon Johnson watched the tense nights away, bound to battlefields and carriers by instant electronic data on boys like...
...Lear. Norman is Shakespeare's Fool as much as he is Sir's. The storm-ravaged heath is Britain under the lightning bolts of the Luftwaffe, and Sir's stunted wartime company resembles the decimated retinue of soldiery left to Lear's command. In his foray into town, shivering, soaked, his mind cast adrift from its moorings, Sir could be Lear's naked "unaccommodated man" shorn of all sense, vanity and power...
...second foray, the men light upon five more mustangs picking at strands of Indian rice grass in a boulder-strewn ravine. They manage to move the pack to a clearing but the lead stallion refuses to cooperate. He attempts to bring the others back downhill. Crawford gets the horses moving and then sweeps in suddenly at tree level, splitting off the leader and chasing him down a gully. Quickly he gets the other four moving toward the trap. Better to lose one than the pack...
Janet Malcolm's Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession is a timely and masterful foray into the practice and penetralia of this modern mystery religion. Timely because since the golden age of piety of the fifties--when Salinger's Seymour Glass frolicked blithely with bananafish while his new bride chatted with her mother about what all the "goddam" analysts thought about that peculiar young man--psychoanalysis has been receding from, the public eye. After these years of gestalt therapy, est, and, yes, hot tubs (who can really believe that a neighborhood of fools sitting in a tub of scalding water is therapy...