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...American fiction might have been able to go somewhere with this plot, but Agnew simply does not know where to start. Nothing happens for the first two hundred pages. Agnew introduces his characters with an almost Proustian verve for description, but his idea of expressing meaningful detail is to inform the reader every time a character shaves, or brushes his teeth. Then, when the action finally takes place--most of it in the final fifty pages--Agnew makes up for lost time and all hell breaks loose. Old friends become antagonists overnight; radical extremists blackmail high government officials...
...committee would be able to pass on the foreign intelligence budget (which is now considered so vital a secret that the figure-estimated at about $10 billion -was eliminated from the report at the request of the CIA). What is more, the President would be compelled by law to inform the committee before any significant undercover operation was undertaken-thereby giving the members a chance to object to, although not veto the enterprise. Political assassinations would be forbidden by statute, as they now are by Ford's decree. In addition, the committee would ban by law any attempt...
...people who will push you hard just because they like it, and guards who won't admire you, and food you can't eat, and unless you do eat it, they'll put you in solitary." Hellman remained obdurate. She would not even let her lawyers inform the committee about past attacks on her work by the Communist press: "In my thin morality, it is plainly not cricket to clear yourself by jumping on people who are themselves in trouble...
...glad if a student does this and tells us," Riesman said, "but if a student does this and does not inform us ahead of time, I'm in favor of severe action--expulsion...
Williams said that Afro had failed because of a lack of formal structure, and an inability to inform new students about its purpose...