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...Supporters as 'Immoral'" one headline reads. LaRouche "tonight derided any person who publicly endorses President Jimmy Carter as 'immoral,' a person to be pitied by his friends and neighbors... There is no error or exaggeration in saying that the economic policies of the Carter administration are Nazi," the LaRouche onslaught continues. Then, the telling blow. "LaRouche qualified his denunciation of Carter by indicating that Republican George Bush was far worse than Carter." The reason? "Bush's campaign has consciously adopted the policies of Nazi Herrmann Goering...(who) proposed to crush the German civilian economy with a massive arms drive...
Saturday's onslaught typified the Crimson's performance in the three-day meet. Headliners David Lundberg, Ron Raikula and Bobby Hacket each won their specialty, the 200-yd. breaststroke, the 200-yd. backstroke and the 1650-yd. freestyle, respectively, but it was the number of Harvard finalists that overwhelmed the opposition...
...turn Lear's tragedy on us, blinding us with spotlights until our eyes tear or shut; deafening us with insidious noise, the constant whir of electric mosquitoes or a four-hour test of the emergency broadcast system; teasing us with snippets of Shakespeare's poetry made impotent by the onslaught of technological power. We are all Lears, Sellars implies, who have turned our backs on love, on simple beauty and grace, on people and objects of substance. Like Lear we mistakenly embrace the shiny, the glossy, the plastic, the metallic--words and things that mean nothing to us when...
...Bush Headquarters Tuesday evening photographers sipped courtesy brews and listened to radio reporters screw up their live broadcasts--"Bush's...um...Reagan's field director...um...campaign manager...Shit. Let's try that again." It's all part of the media blitz on the New Hampshire primary--an onslaught of lights and microphones which itself received so much attention, it became a self-perpetuating news story...
There is no escaping the political onslaught-the price New Hampshirites pay for wanting to be first. They may be going fishing or to church or to lunch or to nowhere in particular, yet there is usually some candidate or at least some poster of a candidate staring them right in the eye. At a Ramada Inn in Manchester, where young workmen were taking down the WELCOME GOVERNOR REAGAN Sign and putting up GREETINGS AMBASSADOR BUSH, one of them groused, "As soon as he's through, we've got to get ready for John Anderson...