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...began this Administration with a call for sacrifices, and when you offer a tax cut, it sounds as if you were not asking for a sacrifice." Yet. by advocating tax reduction with the budget deep in the red, she went on, the Administration is "asking people to sacrifice long-held prejudices and beliefs...
...been expressed by eminent men (T. E. Lawrence, Yeats, Graves) since his undergraduate days at Oxford, whence he was graduated with minimal honors. A High Wind in Jamaica was far more than just another story of children; it was a philosophical fantasy with a cutting edge, seeking to overthrow long-held sentimental notions of childhood, arguing that in reality children are fearful, secret, ritualistic, and innocent only in the sense that savages are innocent...
After the last mile of speeches had finally paid out through the rostrum's idiot box, ratings indicated that nearly twice as many people had watched NBC as CBS, with ABC far out of the running. CBS, on the defensive in its long-held top position in TV news, had at least one slim consolation: it scored an exclusive interview with the expectant Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on a Cape Cod lawn 3,000 miles from the gavel...
...rumbles from Southern delegations hinted that, contrary to long-held assumptions, the Solid South was not heading all the way for L.B.J. any longer. The biggest sign that the South was flying apart came at the Governors' conference in Glacier National Park, when Texas Governor Price Daniel tried to call a meeting of Southern Governors at which, presumably, the Southerners would declare their eternal support for Johnson. In a canvass of the Governors, Daniel got a couple of shockers: Mississippi's diehard segregationist Ross Barnett refused to guarantee his delegation for Johnson, because Johnson had pushed through...
...someone could shake the long-held rationale of the Dutch Reformed hierarchy, South Africa's stubborn men might at long last be shaken in their self-righteous faith in apartheid itself...