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Theoretically such a vision should produce the government that Reagan has promised, the kind that governs least. If corporate America is part of nature???of the nature of the country, the nature of man?then it must be free to grow to its fullest capacity, like an individual. Tax cuts, reduced federal interference and other prods to Big Business (including the corporate character of the Cabinet appointments) are simply ways of making pioneers of businessmen, of restoring some of the old make-a-buck fire. Yet the character of the Reagan Administration will not depend wholly on his political vision...
...maledictions of black witches. The black witches invoke power from the darker forces of nature???or Satan?and generally employ their magic for themselves, either in an attempt to acquire something or to cast a malicious spell on an enemy...
...prowess helped prove how the West's pundits had underrated the appeal of independence and liberty in the so-called battle for men's minds. To millions of the world's uncommitted peoples, Communism's ability to master space was less impressive than its inability to master its own nature???and the symbol of Communism in 1959 was not that of Red rockets reaching for stars, but of Red China reaching brutally into Tibet and India...
...public service has ranged from counsel for the Citizens Committee of Sioux City, when he "prosecuted boodlers" in 1894, to membership on the Federal Farm Loan Board (1916) and head of the Far East Red Cross Commission (1920). Besides his fiction, Mr. Quick has written much of a practical nature???on agricultural problems (The Real Trouble With the Farmer), on rural education (The Brown Mouse}, on American inland waterways...
Stevenson is spoken of as perpetually gay in the midst of physical agony, financial reverses, artistic disappointment. It is true that he was of a buoyant nature???a genial bubble riding stormy seas. But he was subject to fits of overwhelming depression. "Oh Medea, kill me or make me young again!" he cries...