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...confidential memo to her corporate superiors that Mitchell was "definitely helping us" with the ITT settlement. Mitchell's response was swift and curt. Mrs. Beard approached him three times at a Kentucky Derby party in Louisville, he said, and on the third sally, "I told her in rather harsh terms that I didn't appreciate her approaching me." His message was: shove...
...Meir's remarks in the Knesset sounded unusually harsh toward the most moderate Arab leader that Israel faces. Conceivably, the scornful tone had been deliberately tailored to spare Hussein from Arab antagonism; an immediate sign of Israeli enthusiasm would have meant the kiss of death for the King. If that was the case, her seemingly undiplomatic diplomacy was well-advised. Even before Hussein announced his plan, rumors abounded in the Middle East that Israel and Jordan had already mapped out a peace plan at a series of secret meetings. Reported details of the agreement included extraterritoriality for Moslem shrines...
...sedate hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Committee had rarely rung with such harsh language. Columnist Jack Anderson was pressing his charges that the Nixon Administration had settled antitrust suits against the giant ITT Corp. in return for up to $400,000 in backing to bring the Republican National Convention to San Diego (TIME, March 13). As the second week of tense testimony unfolded, Republican officials were still on the defensive. The Administration had requested the hearings, hoping to dispel quickly any whiff of a deal. Thus far it had failed, and gleeful Democrats were only too happy to prolong...
...much an idea as a rendezvous for a flock of adjectives: sweet, refined, minor, sensitive, nuanced, emotional, lyrical, pastel, and so on. The opposite list would be the favorite lexicon of praise for most New York painting since 1950, the attributes of the macho masterpiece: harsh, brusque, major, obsessive, direct, intellectual, tragic, primary. The result of the stereotype is an ingrained reluctance to take women artists as seriously...
...best time to say goodbye. Faces are gentled by dusk; shadows of bitterness or of that can only be cast by the hard light of day merge and fade away in the wash of darkness. To bid goodbye in a dream: surely this gentle going is better than the harsh, hard-edged parting in broad day, better than a Scarlet-Stained. Passion-Heavy sunset farewell. Deep blue night; the hush; a cool, whispering touch--and footsteps echoing away, ever more distant in the dark. Delicate, right, no danger of disintegration, of seeing what we've loved shattered, bursting into bitter...