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...Neill used to commute weekly to Cambridge from Washington, going up on Thursday night and returning on the Monday night sleeper. The family loved to linger over dinner, arguing politics for hours. Listening to his children, O'Neill began to have doubts about his hawkish party-line stand on Viet...
More likely, the heavy car will linger as a limited-purpose, special-use auto, but not again become the basic American vehicle. If so, many drivers will feel the emptiness that always accompanies the final breakup of a lingering love affair...
Surprisingly, drugola did not seem to be the central problem. Vestiges of the drug-oriented youth culture of the late '60s linger on in the rock world. But so far there is little likelihood of a scandal approaching the scope of the payola debacle of the '50s. A federal grand jury in Newark is investigating the matter, but is reported to be months away from any conclusions or possible indictments...
America has a bad ache in its body politic. Nobody is sure whether the cause will fade away, linger on for three years, be drastically removed by a blunt legal instrument called impeachment, or yield to the less painful therapy of resignation. In the midst of such uncertainties, a measure of literary relief and historical perspective may be taken from the latest presidency book, this one by Arthur Schlesinger...
Whether Bob Guillemin is a serious artist or not seems beyond the point. Sidewalk Sam is in the streets for fun, and the people who interrupt their busy dashes across Boston to stop and watch him work enjoy their respite from the hubub of city life manage to linger on for a few extra minutes to exchange friendly words with the red-bandanna-topped artist...