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...long as egalitarians assume that public policy cannot contribute to economic equality directly but must proceed by ingenious manipulations of marginal institutions like the schools, progress will remain glacial. If we want to move beyond this tradition, we will have to establish political control over the economic institutions that shape our society. This is what other countries usually call socialism. Anything less will end in the same disappointment as the reforms of the late...
DETENTE on the Korea Peninsula proceeds at a glacial pace...
...know how to swim, Monsieur Chevalier?" Greta asked at a dinner party in Hollywood. "Mais oui," replied Chevalier hesitantly. "Then let's go for a dip in the ocean right now," said the Swedish actress. "But it's midnight," objected the Frenchman. "Le Pacifique est glacial." Garbo never talked to Chevalier again...
Eloquent Ideologue. No, it is not an easy job to shepherd the flock following the wordsmith who, in his glacial contempt for newsmen, has included them among the "nattering nabobs of negativism." Says one Agnew intimate: "If someone were to advise the Vice President to close down his press office, leaving only a girl to answer the phone and say 'F- you' to every query, Agnew would be perfectly agreeable...
...vehicle for this heavy freight is Dr Jesse Vogel, a character who passes through a succession of other characters like a phantom walking through walls. Jesse Vogel resembles Jules in them. He possesses a sense of personal destiny that has been developed by trauma, unusual circumstance and a mysterious, glacial will power...