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...interrupting him with comments of their own. The purpose is to suggest that Harris and his listeners are all adults together, and that he is no parent proclaiming infallible truths to obedient children. Occasionally, he writes out advice on a prescription pad: "I want you, John, to smile and greet ten new people every...
Arthur Naftalin, a brilliant mayor of Minneapolis during the '60s, points out that no single group?ethnic, religious or business?has ever been able to take control of the state. There were no Tammany machines to greet the immigrants. "With our great variety," says Naftalin, "we have always had to form coalitions...
...most part, leaders of the environment movement greet Train's appointment with guarded approval. Joseph Browder, director of the Environmental Policy Center, thinks Train "understands and is sensitive to the environmental values," which will be coming under attack. Brock Evans, the Sierra Club's Washington representative, "has high hopes." Train himself is emphatic about maintaining his independence. "As administrator I have the responsibility for making decisions on standards and regulations and I'm the one who's going to make the final decisions...
...surrounded in the pressroom. The Stockton family, minus Mr., waits for Dickie on the clubhouse porch, looking out over the grass now singed dusky by the sun's going down. He barely acknowledges them as he trudges by, towel draped around his neck for a shower. How do you greet a beaten Stockton when all the customary reassurances, the buck ups, the next times, the good fights, come as so much rubbing in of failure...
...true that in some areas of the U.S.S.R. local nationalists did greet the Germans as potential liberators. But Strik-Strikfeldt's sketches of the conquering Germans restoring abandoned churches as they went and winning the huzzahs of the downtrodden populace is an astonishingly ingenuous view of the Nazi war machine. As late as 1941, he insists, Hitler had "the opportunity to refashion Europe on a basis of freedom, justice and equality." That is like saying that the jaguar, in mid-attack, could change into an antelope-and it explains much about German naiveté. Anyone who could believe that...