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...Geismar's real job for him. If he is familiar with Kaplan's study and the Autobiography, he can pick his way through this book and arrive at a reasonable explanation of the strange shape of Twain's career. Twain's outlook darkened and grew harsher in the last half of his life. During much of the same period he endured a harrowing succession of business catastrophes and deaths in his family. At the same time, as Geismar points out, U.S. society-Twain's raw material -was also changing. The young agrarian republic was becoming...
...continue until all arguments had been heard by commission staffers, a process that usually took years. In the end, the advertiser signed a consent agreement promising not to err again. Last year a group of George Washington University law students argued that the FTC should take a much harsher stand and force offending advertisers to confess in their ads that they had lied. In two proposed orders, the FTC did just that...
...told the press, "one does not have to win every fight." Then, clutching an unopened bottle of champagne, he stood up and asked through a translator: "Overall, what did you think of me?" The reporters politely applauded. In Paris, where the fight was televised via satellite, the verdict was harsher -and truer. Headlined France-Soir: THE END OF A DREAM: CERDAN WON'T BE ABLE TO BECOME WORLD CHAMPION...
Thank God the State Department cannot touch them, so they can have a well-deserved taste of justice, far harsher than that justice which they downgraded in this country...
...over the country, state legislators have tried to curb campus disruptions-and win favor with voters-by forcing colleges to mete out ever harsher penalties to demonstrators. Supporters of such measures argue that universities must protect themselves or be destroyed; critics believe that unduly harsh countermeasures have often transformed moderate students into radicals. The latest instances: legislation in Pennsylvania and a pending law in New York...