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...only time the party can be re-energized, Mrs. Luce declares, will be "when issues emerge and the leaders are clever enough to grab onto them and put them to the public before the opposition does." Despite all her efforts toward party unity, Mrs. Luce concedes that she would have "no objection" to the realignment of American parties according to the British system. Where would she stand? "What I would call myself now I don't know...
...eating ants in his pants, shirking every obligation, going to wild parties in Denver, New York, San Francisco, having uninhibited sex with beautiful girls, drinking in jazz in crowded joints, getting high on pot, engaging in intense discussions about God, about Love, about Salvation, all in a mad, passionate grab to dig everything and everybody. If Moriarty goes fast enough (and here's Kerouac's big clue-in coming up), if Moriarty's experiences are plentiful and violent enough, "the great ultimate secret will be laid bare...
...half, Sadoski intercepted a Gales pass on the Harvard 44. Zimmerman then took the team 56 yards in nine plays, chiefly by pitching to Sadoski for 11 yards, to Kram for 19, and finally seven yards to Bill Cobb, who leaped out of a ruck of Yale defenders to grab the pass and score...
...economic stability. "Bolivia," he insisted, "must keep particularly close relations with the U.S." He talked about disarming both the peasant militia of Paz Estenssoro and the militant tin min ers of Leftist Juan Lechín to avoid fur ther trouble. Yet he allowed Lechín to grab control of all the country's most important unions, bowed even further by promising the unions joint control with management in running the nationalized tin mines. In the past when the miners had such a voice, they featherbedded costs so high that Bolivia was no longer able to export...
...disappointing to read once again, in the Salinger-Vanocur book, the newspaper and magazine articles that once seemed so brilliantly written and to find that many of them were not really that good. In those days anything that grabbed us by the emotions seemed to be extraordinary writing, and it was not difficult to grab us by the emotions at that time. Or perhaps we were merely more generous a year...