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...single human relationship in this world is as important as that between the President of the United States and the man who leads the Soviet Union. They grope for an understanding of each other through 4,800 miles of political static, at once drawn together by necessity and fascination and held apart by cultural suspicion and government bureaucracy. Their personalities become summaries of nations too vast and complex to understand in the whole...
...that lobbyists lobbied Congressmen," says PAC Critic Mike Synar, a Democratic Congressman from Oklahoma. "Now, Congressmen lobby lobbyists-for money." When that inevitable creature of the PAC explosion, the National Association for Association PACs, threw a party, 80 Congressmen showed up. "I've never seen such a group grope," says Democrat Dan Glickman of Kansas. Republican James Coyne of Pennsylvania playfully installed five Pac-Man video games near the bar of one of his Washington fund raisers in honor of the real PAC-men who have donated $126,000 to his 1982 campaign. Other lawmakers shower the PACs with...
...Grape of Wrath: Editors should force writers to establish themes quickly and economically. In face, limiting Steinbeck in this manner might even further his theme of poverty and hopelessness; Bunches of grapes for the privileged, one grope of the deprived. Of A Mouse and A Man stands on the horizon...
...good officer and NCO know the value that the military (and the Government) sets on saying nothing well. Why grope for the single best word when the Army offers a bulging granary of verbal corn...
Sometimes a dramatist offers one special clue as to his intent, and British Playwright Davies seems to do that when he has Rose quote a line from the German socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg: "It's in the tiny domestic struggles of individual people as they grope towards self-realization that we can most truly discern the great movements of society." The play's title may be an oblique salute to Rosa...