Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WILLIAM BUCKLEY, conservative columnist and editor (National Review): There's no one that I know of who has the potential grip on the imagination of the American people that would be conclusive enough to cause everybody to say "there is a leader" in the sense, for instance, that F.D.R. was, like him or loathe him. There is no American leader of anything like the stature or potential influence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Now there are a lot of mini-leaders. Irving Kristol is the acknowledged godfather of the [neoconservative] movement. But he probably couldn't persuade a Boy Scout...
Troy spent two months in jail while retaining his council seat. But the voters of Queens, who once backed him by margins as high as 3-1, ended his grip on politics at the next election. Looking back, Troy feels the ordeal did have one benefit. "The family [including nine children] kept together with all the trouble. Of course, I am sorry for the embarrassment it caused them. My son has the same name-he'll have to live it down-and he wants to be a lawyer. I have a feeling he wants to vindicate everything...
...could be held accountable for his actions? asked Nadezhda Mandelstam. Her answer may apply to all the characters in the pitiful drama that is played out in this book. A person's be havior, and even character, she wrote, "is always in the merciless grip of the age, which squeezes out of him the drop of good or evil that it needs from him." -Patricia Blake
...Energy Project earlier this month released its report on America's energy options: a collection of eight persuasive, crisply written essays entitled Energy Future. The project, which has been studying energy problems since 1972, says it is impossible to wriggle out of OPEC's grip in the short term by depending on conventional domestic energy sources--oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear. The Harvard group is not the first to say we must look elsewhere. But what is unique about this conclusion--other than the respect the group commands in government and business circles--is the Project's pragmatic, multidisciplinary...
...reason Dracula remains forever undead is that no amount of cinematic miscalculation can entirely loosen his grip on our imaginations. Now he has proved that even an excess of good taste cannot entirely ground him. Not permitted to parody romantic menace as he was able to do on the stage, Langella shows himself capable of playing it straight and slightly melancholic. Kate Nelligan, as Lucy, the young woman who enthralls him and is herself enthralled, is superbly spirited. In the film's early scenes, she plays the part as a liberated lady, turn-of-the-century variety. Once Dracula...