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...This has always been the country of easy answers-easy in the sense of being simple and straightforward rather than complicated. We're the country of the endless frontier, of the big sky, of manifest destiny, of unlimited resources, of 'Go west, young man,' of opportunity for all, of rags to riches, mass production, nothing to fear but fear itself, technical know-how, a chicken in every pot, gung-ho and can do. We have won all the marbles-and it just isn't enough. Further, the U.S. of A. knows or feels that...
Foreign policy makers today are vividly, even agonizingly aware that their own policy plans are inextricably intertwined with other countries' foreign policies. In the United States, massive retaliation has gone the way of Manifest Destiny...
...Hamlet is both gentle and brutal, passionate and detached, slow to act yet violent in action-a volatile tangle of will, thought, word and deed. Hamlet is also the first supremely self-conscious hero to tread the stage. This is where Richard Pasco's failure is most manifest. He portrays a computer's Hamlet, mechanically feeding himself punch cards marked Father's Ghost, Ophelia, Laertes, Horatio, Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and responding mechanically to them. His co-players do not perceptibly help by acting like crumpled punch cards...
...that I hope we ever see in this country." Some stunned survivors thumbed through Old Moore's Almanac for 1967 and laid the blame on the stars. Said Moore's: "From January to July, there are unfavorable signs relating to the timber industry. These are expected to manifest themselves in a number of almost disastrous forest fires when Mars forms a square to Jupiter...
...most heartening thing about the G.O.P.'s presidential stirrings is that they are generally free of racist overtures. That there is a new Republican Party-as well as an incipient new South-was manifest in a speech to the New Orleans conclave by Tennessee's freshman G.O.P. Senator Howard Baker, Dirksen's son-in-law. "I'm a lot less concerned about what my Democratic granddaddy must think of me," declared Baker, "and a lot more concerned about what my grandchildren will think...