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Newsweek was not alone in its ebullience; the press generally regarded the Supreme Court's decision as a vital affirmation of its right to gather and dispense information independently of government pressure. Moreover, journalists felt that the Court's decision would have broad, longterm effects on its relationship with the Federal branch. But a quick glance at any newspaper today, on almost any day, will show that the press's nirvana has dissipated as rapidly as it mounted; like a false spring spoiled by an April blizzard, the Court's 1971 decision has dissolved in the face of a high...
Complaining. The Shultz plan is being discussed by the finance ministers of a committee of 20 nations. In March, the ministers will gather in Washington for the next in a series of meetings that are supposed to produce an outline that could be approved at the IMF meeting in September. But Shultz, in announcing the devaluation, made a point of complaining that the negotiations are going too slowly. Last week he hinted that if agreement is long delayed, the U.S. will act to balance its international payments on its own, presumably by protectionist restrictions on imports or even further devaluations...
...THIS is not to say that an Ionesco play should be a cozy, gather-round-the-fireside affair. If we should remain close to the action, then we should also be appalled by what we see. In order to help us draw back in horror, the thick and ghastly paste of wrinkled contortion that the players call make-up gives things a masked, tragic look. Ionesco deemed the play a "tragic farce," and the bare, microcosmic setting fortifies the impression of Greek drama: it caters to the essential formality built into the play...
...demonstration provided an easy organizational vehicle for the committed and for the curious. So the people continued to gather, and the students continued to march, even as the war dragged on and it became increasingly clear that even thousands of collective voices yelling in unison could not capture official Washington's ear. Frustration and the sense that "maybe this time it will work" explains to a certain extent the unending periodic demonstrations. But in another sense they were almost necessary for the demonstrators themselves, to constantly re-establish their hazy beliefs with a mass-identity. One never really listened...
When he got tired of walking, Munoz stopped at a farmhouse and cut some wood or helped to gather in the crops. "People were very friendly, taking me in for the night, feeding me, and some would give me a little money when they found out what had happened...