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Campaign wounds, of course, heal quickly, and a certain amount of rhetorical violence is accepted and forgiven in U.S. politics. By lowering his voice -as he surely will-and turning to the daily task of building a record on which he can run in 1972, the President can control many of the events that will shape his re-election chances. He must act to get the economy under control, and he must move back toward the center, where majority opinion in the nation lies. It would be surprising if he did not learn from this election that divisive politics...
Even in a good cause, Reich cannot be forgiven his verbal incense and record-jacket style. "Their clothes are earthy and sensual. Their bell-bottoms . . . give the ankles a special freedom as if to invite dancing right on the street," he writes of the joyfulness of the Consciousness III group. It has, he says, "rediscovered a childlike quality that it supremely treasures, to which it gives its ultimate sign of reverence, vulnerability and innocence, 'Oh Wow!' " Reich has little judgment and no fairness or consistency. He slightingly compares Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Rolling Stones...
...there is something about the potential victim's bearing, stride and dignity "that has formed a bond between us . . . I realize that the life of this unknown stranger-probably an enemy-is worth a thousand times more to me than his death. I should never quite have forgiven myself if I had shot him-naked, courageous, defenseless, yet so unmistakably...
...coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside, Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson at Henley, and according to one Harvard athletic official, " Sports Illustrated has never forgiven us since...
...coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside. Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson at Henley, and according to one Harvard athletic official, "Sports Illustrated has never forgiven us since...