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...Buffalo's a God-forsaken place," Stack concluded...
...public lecture, Harry Kenmore, New York chiropractor and member of Baba's inner circle, said Baba told him that each time a Messiah came to Earth, he manifested one weakness. For instance, Jesus on the cross should not have asked God why He had forsaken him. (Apparently, Baba had not the view of some philologists that, in the mistranslation, "glorify" became "forsake.") Kenmore said he thought that Baba's weakness lay in his failure to break his silence as promised...
Heady Days. Fifer is typical of the residue of tough-minded collegians left after a powerful but formless wave of students came rushing onto the scene in May to establish a beachhead in conventional politics. Summer started, school ended, and predictably most of the student volunteers have forsaken figurative for littoral beaches. But those who remain are hard at work registering voters, gathering petitions, computerizing, analyzing their mistakes in the spring primaries, interested in winning on the issues rather than losing with elan. Their principal goal in November is to elect a Congress that will end the Viet...
Unfortunately, Boesman and Lena is one of those accounts of unlimited woe that try the playgoer's patience. Boesman (James Earl Jones) and Lena (Ruby Dee) are pitiable South African Coloreds whom God and man have forsaken, and whose only shelter is some abandoned junk on the banks of a muddy river basin. Nature wheels around them like an impatient vulture, and death is the only consolation prize that their life has to offer...
...nothing else could have done. While the polls show no loss of support for Nixon from the nation at large, Americans are probably less certain now than two months ago that the U.S. can steadily disengage from Indochina without enduring further crises. In the Senate, which has virtually forsaken its other business to debate Cambodia, the President's support has dropped noticeably. Adept maneuvering by Nixon's supporters will probably prevent the passage of any meaningful limits on his powers to conduct the war, but the Senate has informally served notice that it will not abide any further...