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...when the country stands at a critical point in its growth and development. It can either slip back almost effortlessly into its old "land of tomorrow" ways or, if Costa carries the torch, finally begin to live up to its prophesies and take its place as a power and mover in Latin America...
...chairman of Tower Club and of the Grad ICC. Although he has led the way in promoting more intellectual activities in clubs by providing speakers and libraries, Newman is typical of the reactionary element of the grad boards. Steve Oxman, president of the Undergraduate Council (UGC) and the prime mover in the Bicker revolt, said that Newman told him that even if 100 per cent of the undergraduates favored the new proposals, the grad ICC wouldn't budge. Only three grad board chairmen said that they would approve of changing Bicker, and then only if the Grad...
...well situated in relation to rail road networks, mail moves increasingly by truck and plane. Automation has swept the industrial world but so far has barely touched the Post Office, where the manual labor of 681,600 employees, now reinforced by 150,000 seasonal workers, still is the prime mover of mail. Opposition from powerful postal unions and from some lethargic officials has slowed innovation...
...George Etherege, Restoration fop and mover, tossed off a play called The Man of Mode; or, Sir Fopling Flutter. The play is unfettered by plot, unburdened by morals, unsourced by satire. Like the Glass Flowers, it is all for appearance, a collection of delicately made specimens of a certain type of life. The Man of Mode is very much of its age, not for all time. In this limp-wrist world, the winners win by virtue of their wit, and the losers lose for having the bad taste to display jealously -- a situation which confuses our twentieth-century sympathies. Furthermore...
...liberal eyebrow arches at these goings-on, and the liberal finger is quick to point at sly ol' LBJ as prime mover in the proceedings. The truth is that the Administration didn't dare ask for a specific long-term appropriation, what with the Vietnam War and the Great Society, and indications are that the bureaucracy is every bit as surprised as the rest...