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...such criticisms inevitably fall on deaf ears. They are not trying to take an objective tone, the Sparts will tell you. They are about the formulation of revolutionary politics. One paragraph from "Young Spartacus" summarizes their political philosophy...
Trevor tends to connect his chosen selection of writings with rather dry, cursory remarks. But in more extended passages, such as the fascinating and powerfully-felt paragraph comparing the literary aspects of England and Ireland in the nineteenth century, Trevor's voice takes on the tone of a refreshingly enthusiastic, rather than a dutiful, guide. For example, talking about the playwright Sean O'Casey, Trevor says that...
...flight at Washington's National Airport. It was in the course of that conversation that Jackson dropped his "Hymie" bombshell. One of the reporters, Milton Coleman of the Washington Post, passed on the remark to a white colleague, Rick Atkinson, who used it in the 37th paragraph of a story about Jackson's foreign policy. Jackson at first insisted that he had no recollection of making the remark, then apologized in a synagogue two days before the New Hampshire primary...
...employees at Bechtel, the international construction firm with headquarters in San Francisco (1983 revenues: $14 billion), rarely get much personal correspondence from Chairman Stephen Bechtel Jr., 58. Many of them therefore were surprised last week when they received an eight-paragraph "management memo" directly from the chairman and signed simply "Steve." Once they started reading, surprise turned to shock. "Over the weekend," began the memo, "you have probably read or heard news-media reports of allegations that a consultant may have made improper payments in Korea. These allegations are very serious since they attack our most valuable asset-Bechtel...
...paper's power came last month, when the Securities and Exchange Commission opened a formal investigation into leaks to stock traders about what items were to appear in its "Heard on the Street" column. The Journal is far from complete: editors can dis miss political developments in a paragraph, and the paper's three daily Page One stories, while almost invariably literate, are not always on top of the news. But the Journal is the only truly international American newspaper, available on the day of publication virtually everywhere in the U.S. and in separate editions in Asia...