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With uncanny accuracy this poetic work struck the nerve of the times and called forth grateful rapture from a whole youthful generation who believed that an interpreter of their innermost life had risen from their own midst...
Overtaken by Events. Johnson appeared impassive throughout. While he gave no hint of his innermost thoughts, White House correspondents guessed that his feelings were ambivalent. The invasion damaged his master plan for further accommodation with the Rus sians. But it also put him back in the center of action and, all too clearly, discomfited the Democrats who most loud ly condemn his war policy...
...Richard Strauss, who were working in the late romantic tradition, projected their explosive forms out of subjective, often agonized emotion. Nielsen's free-flowing counterpoint and virile rhythms sprang partly from Danish folk roots, partly from a robust, wholesome objectivity. "What business have other people with my innermost feelings?" he asked...
...months ago, he severely warned the country's intellectuals that he would never tolerate "the spread of liberalism" or any other contaminating Western ideology. In turn, Czechoslovakia never really adjusted to Novotný. Recently, an increasingly vocal opposition to his hardlining ways percolated right up to the innermost circles of the Communist Party. Last month the ruling Presidium voted 8-2 to fire Novotný as party chief, and only a hasty trip to Prague by Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev saved his skin...
...ever accused Hugh Hefner of being lyrical, but he can grow almost eloquent about sex, sounding approximately like D. H. Lawrence as rewritten by Alfred Kinsey. Sex, he is on record as saying, "can become, at its best, a means of expressing the innermost, deepest-felt longings, desires and emotions. And it is when sex serves those ends?in addition to, and apart from, reproduction?that it is lifted above the animal level and becomes most human...