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...need no longer be tougher than restrictions on Russia. Said one White House staffer: "Let's face it. Behind the President's remarks is his very real thinking that it is idle to attempt indefinitely to arrest the flow of water downhill. Every dam must have its outlet...
...reflection that intellectuals are political romantics who can be stirred by extreme situations: "Romanticism in a political context I would define as an irrational capacity to become inflamed by interests and causes that are not one's own, that are outside oneself. When we shop around for an outlet we find there is nothing in stock: no Spain, no Fascism, no mass unemployment...
...most intriguing aspect of Marx's first and last association with the U.S. press, Hale suggests, is that "the Tribune was not only Marx's meal ticket but his experimental outlet for agitation and ideas during the most creative period in his life. Had there been no Tribune sustaining him, there might possibly-who knows?-have been no Das Kapital. And had there been no Das Kapital, would there have been a Lenin and a Stalin? And without Marxist Lenin and Stalin, in turn, would there have been...
...Senate, which has been sending up skyrockets about economy, last week got its first chance to cut President Eisenhower's budget, and fell head over heels into its most cherished federal-spending outlet-the pork barrel. Up for consideration was that pork-packed perennial, the rivers and harbors bill, an assortment of 100 public-works projects, including one for every state in the Union except Rhode Island and Nevada. President Eisenhower vetoed the bill last year because it included so many projects that had not been approved by all required U.S. agencies...
...already gained, from previous experiences, an overwhelming fear of death and the dead. This incident, they suggest, may have triggered a flight from reality in which the original personality (most closely resembling Jane) was replaced by the compulsive Eve White, while the hoydenish Eve Black served as an outlet for earthy impulses that Eve White could not accept...