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...area District 65 has by now amply demonstrated that it no longer is a fledging union with a purely self-serving axe to grind. Its battle is now seen by many workers in heroic dimension--pitted against an increasingly Goliath-like University, District 65 is regarded as something of a potential David...
Little David, public education, is now endangered by a big, bad Goliath, private schools? Come...
Writer David Halberstam thinks L.B.J. had a good point. So good, in fact, that Halberstam is writing a book that examines power, especially the power of the television Goliath. He is two years and 400 pages into the project and reckons he has another 18 months to go. But admirers of Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest will not have to wait that long to read his new work. Two lengthy excerpts will appear in the January and February issues of the Atlantic...
...going to happen if someone beats an incumbent President in these primaries? What are the voters going to think? The President has all the machinery, but I'd be happy with the grass roots. If I decide to run, maybe there's a little David and Goliath to this thing...
...prisonbreak yarn, showed the usually saturnine star cracking jokes, playing big, generally and infectiously enjoying himself. In Hard Times, Bronson's role is closer to his customary image: the callous, uncommunicative loner. When this sort of projection does not work (The Stone Killer, Death Wish), Bronson is a Goliath who could be toppled by leprechauns. This time, however, the stolid performer manages to achieve an authentic, scruffy street dignity...