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...applaud the activities of the National Institutes of Mental Health. We should decry the meager sums of money available for research in mental illness, which represents the nation's primary public health problem...
Numbing provinciality was the lot of artists in America 200 years ago. Limning, as painting was called, was a trade, like ropemaking or wheelwrighting. To most of the itinerant "house, sign and fancy" painters, it gave a meager living. They shifted from town to town in New England, setting down in wiry outline and crude, flat tones the tight lips and beaky noses of parsons, housewives and merchants. There were no art schools, let alone an academy, and the demand for big canvases of history and myth-which, across the Atlantic, gave art its public necessity-was nil. Europe...
...Entebbe, there was a very compelling argument against it: never had the Israelis tried so ambitious an operation so far from home. The difficulties of mounting a raid in Uganda thus argued strongly in favor of trying negotiations. Indeed, late in the week, reviewing his country's meager options, an Israeli official sadly (although not quite accurately) concluded: "Since we are completely powerless to act, we have no choice but to make a deal...
Like so many other American plays, That Championship Season is ultimately about the failure to achieve the American dream of success and glory. Its characters are ambitious men who have been unable to fulfill their ambitions. Limited by their meager talents and by their parochial outlook, they are trapped, branded with the label of mediocrity; and in our society, such a designation is almost worse than total failure. The Eliot House Drama Society production compellingly conveys the pathos of this particularly American tragedy...
Each of them invested the $500 it takes to pay the state Secretary of State's election fee, and came up with the 500 signatures it takes to get on the ballot in each of New Hampshire's two primary districts. The meager 188 votes that Clegg and Packwood earned as a dividend would indicate that American capitalism has sunk even lower than they think...