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Thus, the president's problem remains what it has been even since his election in 1974: how to inject enough reformism into his own Majority, to provoke the "opening to the Left" he desires. This requires two qualities he has not shown so far, despite his analytic intelligence and pedagogic talent: political imagination in devising reforms, political skill in overcoming obstacles. He now has a freer hand and a better opportunity, since he faces a deeply shaken Left and has won much greater influence for his supporters within the Majority...
Edwin Newman, NBC news commentator, arguing that television reporters inject themselves too much into interviews: "We ought in some sense to encourage thought. I'm saying we ought to make an effort to shut...
Princeton took a 17-point lead to the locker room at halftime, and extended it to 30 points midway through the second half. Harvard coach McGloughlin took out his starters four minutes into the half in a desperate attempt to inject some life into the Harvard team, but the sharpshooting Tigers continued to score...
...being-that no painted apple had before. As the English critic John Berger remarked, the force of gravity was to Courbet what the vibration of light was to Monet and the impressionists. He could put more death into a trout, hooked and flapping on the pebbles, than Raphael could inject into a whole Crucifixion. Courbet's flesh was not an ideal substance, like the flesh of Ingres or Meissonier. Rather, it was weighty, carnal and real. It could be smoothed by relaxation, as with the sumptuous lesbian couple in Sleep, 1866. Or it could be pinched and chapped, like...
...rows upon rows of cells stretching up to the roof, the paint on the cell bars chipping away to expose the constraining iron underneath, the echoing cacophony of voices rebounding against the unadorned walls of the block. The mere sights and sounds of the prison would be sufficient to inject a generous dose of raw terror into even the most jaded newcomers. The foregoing, needless to say, has only served as a fitting warm-up for the assorted misfits and ne'er-do-wells who populate the inside world of those paying back the proverbial debt to society...