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...think I could have said things better. Being terribly cautious about how I phrase things sometimes [means] it has less impact than if I were more freewheeling. You have to balance the two, and I find it a little easier as I go along to be a little freer without being careless. I come to this from my training as a lawyer. You have to be damn careful. If you're loose with what you say, you may have lost the case. I am dealing with a lot of nations who are watching. Don't think they...
...modest office in New York City, would like to run U.S. Lines with a minimum of interference from Washington. Some $44 million in U.S. Lines loans has been guaranteed by the Federal Government. "If McLean retired the loans," said one of his spokesmen, "he'd have a much freer hand in running the line. He just wants wheeling and dealing latitude...
...inject enough reformism into his own Majority, to provoke the "opening to the Left" he desires. This requires two qualities he has not shown so far, despite his analytic intelligence and pedagogic talent: political imagination in devising reforms, political skill in overcoming obstacles. He now has a freer hand and a better opportunity, since he faces a deeply shaken Left and has won much greater influence for his supporters within the Majority...
...Israel will fail to understand how your Political Freedom Index could give it a lower rating than any country in the West. In spite of all threats to its security and very existence, Israel has for 30 years succeeded in maintaining its way of life as one of the freer societies in the world...
...truss or a glider wing. But the machined look of those planes, and the clarity with which they are separated, had an important aesthetic result for Stella: the differences between one part of the painting and its neighbor were so clearly defined that the color could become hotter, freer, more complicated, without lapsing into décor. The titles of the Brazilian series are arbitrary - they are the names of places around Rio de Janeiro, picked off a map. But they accord well with the tropical exuberance and intensity of Stella's new colors, the metallic yellows, fuchsias...