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...think they're worse than the Government." Then he grew nostalgic. "The rallies we used to hold in Madison Square Garden were glorious. No one has ever been able to reproduce those rallies. They have rallies there, but noth ing like the old days...
...very imperfection is why it has need of lawyers constant ly to nurture its growth and to correct its sometimes unjust ways. Legal groups may need to devise new guidelines that somehow strike a better balance between the roles of counselor and advocate. But the chief difficulty is find ing and restoring to the profession its sense of duty to the continuing experiment of law. Some slight satisfaction can be salvaged from the current debacle if it helps restore to lawyers a renewed sensitivity to that most necessary Obligation. *José M. Ferrer...
...paying 40% to 50% more for cotton and wool, partly because purchases by the all-consuming Japanese have shrunk supply. The most volatile commodity of all is the $80 billion in Eurodollars, spilled out of the U.S. by past excessive American spending, that ricochets from country to country, feed ing inflation by swelling the available money supply...
Joyce Maynard, the author of Look ing Back: A Chronicle of Growing Up Old in the Sixties, fully agrees. When she was a freshman at Yale and had to share her dormitory room with both her assigned roommate and the roommate's boy friend, it was she - "the one who slept alone, whose only pills were vitamins and aspirin" - who felt embarrassed. The reason: to many contemporary young people, the virgin is "on the same team with crew cuts and Sensible Orthopedic Shoes and Billy Graham and the Republican Party...
...detail added to the general statement, which was to be the mark of serious fiction for the next century. While Flaubert was reveling in the exotic surroundings, he was mulling over a novel about life back in humdrum Normandy, where he knew the people and spoke the language. Accord ing to Du Camp (and Steegmuller tends to believe him) it was on a barren hill overlooking the Second Cataract of the Nile that he cried: "Eureka! I will call her Emma Bovary...