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...invective cuts deep, since it is untempered with any of Mark Twain's or Will Rogers' humor. At one point he says, "Politicians ... men who will conserve their own well-being in times of peace, and who in times of war are in a state of frantic bewilderment. Who can they lead? And where will they lead them...
...those days the Final Four of the NCAA tourney, the survivors of three frantic weeks of nationwide elimination rounds, were usually known as U.C.L.A. and the three Cinderellas. And almost without exception the Bruins, no fans of fairy tales, would not even give the Cinderellas a dance. So much for underdogs. That Bruin dynasty was the greatest in the history of college basketball...
Playwright John van Druten dresses up Nazism in cabaret clothes, spotlighting the rise of the political party on the stage of a nightclub. The specter of Nazism looms over Berlin, transforming the frantic pursuit of pleasure in the cabaret from an escape into a form of participation in the new cause. As Cabaret progresses, the interspersed dance numbers lose their decadent innocence and turn into vicious political diatribes...
...drift and disarray that have characterized the Administration's economic policy over the past three years. As Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Treasury Secretary G. William Miller fiddle with the depressing statistics, Carter seems able to do little more than cast his eyes heavenward. Meanwhile, a frantic search for another new anti-inflation program, which could be announced as early as this week, is under...
...increase, or a compound annual growth of 18.2%, was the steepest of any month since August 1973. The figure made plain enough what White House Economic Advisers Charles Schultze and Alfred Kahn had been warning about since well before Christmas: rising oil prices, higher interest rates and a frantic "buy it now before it costs more" inflation psychology were pushing prices out of control...