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...those who want it, of course, soul food has always been around. In Richard Wright's Native Son (1940), a Communist organizer tried to impress the black protagonist by eating soul food in a black restaurant in a black neighborhood. One of the reasons that Rodgers and Hart's lady was a tramp back in 1937 was that she wouldn't "go to Harlem in ermine and pearls...
Nixon's best appointment was David Kennedy, a banker who deserves to be head of the Treasury Department. A compassionate man interested in the cities but with the aura of responsibility needed to impress other bankers, Kennedy will probably make the Treasury an important voice in deliberations over domestic and fiscal policy and international monetary reform...
...Alex started to impress us the last four games of the 1967 season," Yovicsin says. "We felt he'd be a very competent replacement for Greenidge, and he's more than proven this," he says...
While the Democratic platform pledged a "balanced defense" and a "vigorous research and development effort," its emphasis was on the need to "recognize that vigilance calls for the twin discipline of defense and arms control." The GOP's call "to restore superiority" is more likely to impress Americans wearied by the long war in Vietnam...
...concern. At Czechoslovakia's request, the U.S. had refrained from any public warnings to the Soviets during the tense preinvasion period in order not to provide the Soviets with another pretense for marching into Prague. Silence having proved futile, the Administration is now determined to impress on the Soviets, given their new mood of unpredictability, that the U.S. will stand by its allies in Europe...