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...more significant, that he had genuine economic grievances. With that, the Forgotten American had arrived, and the Republicans were the first to seize him. In 1968 he was metamorphosed into the Silent Majority and took a suitable place in a sort of faded Norman Rockwell portrait lit by a harsh new light. Even while denouncing and fearing the left-wing radicals, he himself grew impatient with politics as usual, and seemed ready to resort to more desperate measures. Middle American discontent as such is not populism. That requires an acceptance of relatively radical solutions; hence the odd convergence of left...
...most immediate response to the atrocity was a harsh crackdown on leftist radicals. Last week the government arrested more than 100 university students in Ankara and threatened to close down the schools if sympathy demonstrations for the terrorists continued...
...harsh work. For a cottage with two or three bedrooms, four or five tons of reed or straw are required, and because thatchers prefer to work alone, the job often will take four to five weeks, all out-of-doors labor in England's cold and windy weather. Thatchers pick and choose their jobs: most prefer to work only in their home area and simply turn down the increasingly frantic demands that they take on jobs elsewhere. There are only about 400 master thatchers left, but their ranks are being swelled by young men, including several college dropouts...
After speaking to Harrison. I was convinced that the man had a good understanding of basketball. However, I was unsure whether he had been able to communicate it to his players. He had been so harsh when speaking to me that it seemed a reasonable assumption that he might have had problems working with his ball players. Perhaps this was at the root of the problems of the basketball team...
...average Greek, such a change at the top will have little practical effect; after five years of dictatorship, life has become a tolerable mixture of good and bad. The harsh rule that followed the '67 coup has largely lifted; political arrests have declined, martial law has been eased, and military courts hear fewer cases. Price increases on staples have been held down by government fiat, and per capita income has almost tripled in the past twelve years as a result of heavy tax-revenue investments in industry, farming, shipping and tourism...