Word: impressively
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...almost anything during his six and a half hours. Every morning at 3 ("the most desperate hour") he plays an hour's worth of cuts from comedy albums. "I'm a very opinionated son of a gun -- I don't play songs I don't like. Charts don't impress me -- and that's heresy." On the other hand, he says, "I hesitate to try to be arbiter of someone else's taste," and he doesn't object to the protest and Vietnam songs because they make people think. "They represent on a commercial level a feeling of thought...
Lessons by Letter. In those turbulent years, her main education came from the letters from her imprisoned father. Ranging over the wide scope of world history, he tried to impress upon his daughter the necessity for selflessness in the service of freedom. Today the collected letters are read in nearly every Indian school, have made Indira a heroine of the revolution to young Indians...
...with workers who cannot be allowed to walk off the job even though the very nature of public employment tends to spur strikes. In contrast to private industry, public employees deal with administrators who lack full power of the purse, and a strike may be the only way to impress those who control the money-mayors, governors, legislators. When the public employees happen to be vitally needed nurses, teachers, transit workers and the like, they have an unmistakable power to rouse public opinion against a public employer whose inability to settle a dispute casts him in a poor political light...
...other things impress one about the Cape too. To look at the acres of palmetto, the hundred million-dollar buildings, the miraculous machines, and to breathe the words "twenty billion dollars" can't fail to make one wonder. This money is now committed. Beyond it lie the prospects of travel to the planets and the stars, and costs mounting with the same speed as those rockets. And perhaps a few thoughts about priorities. Someone may finally have to answer the question: Why does Rice play Texas
Dennis tries to impress people with his respectability. Mike Love, a cousin and the group's 24-year-old lead vocalist, went straight to bar after Friday's concert, and the other Boys drank easily and knowledgeably as they wandered about the suite. But Dennis kept his glass filled with Seven-Up and clucked paternally at his younger brother, who left early to go to the bar in the lobby. When Dennis offered us Cokes, he apologized and explained again that he doesn't drink. "I can't afford to," he says, "with everything that's wrong with...