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...Richard Nixon's enemies, Connally embodied many of the supposed peculiar vices of the Nixon White House and the Republican Party. Smoothy, shrewd, wealthy, and opportunistic, Connally was a perfect target for liberal acrimony. When he left the Democrats for the GOP in 1973, his old enemy Ralph Yarborough remarked "That's the first time in history a rat has swam toward a sinking ship." The indictment merely confirmed what Connally's enemies had long suspected, and few doubted he would be convicted. Asked why a man of Cornally's wealth would risk his career for a piddling...
...they weren't hailed as conquering heroes, the vets could have received some acknowledgment and practical help for their sacrifice, especially when it inflicted such brutal psychological wounds. Instead, trickling back a few at a time, they were met with odd looks or derisive comments. Relatively recently, the peculiar predicament of the Vietnam veteran has caught the eye of writers--in the press, in David Rabes plays Sticks and Bones and The BasicRaining of Paulo Hummel, now in Tom Cole's Medal of Honor...
...being taught "better synergistic movement of the buccal cavity." In uddah woids, to tawk propah. Last week, at a seminar with an audiologist invited by the United Taxi Owners Guild, the hackies struggled like so many Eliza Doolittles to correct elided consonants, curdled diphthongs and other "substan-dardisms" peculiar to the area. If all goes well, they may give up on diction and speak only when spoken...
...system. With his wall of dialogue he can block all the passions he couldn't successfully reproduce on paper. Higgins knows how good his dialogue can sound, at its best; he knows too well, I think, because his skill at recording his special type of dialogue in his peculiar tones hinders his ambition to be a novelist of wider talents. The German poet Rilke warned one young poet that "he must always remain unconscious, unsuspecting of his best virtues, if he would not rob them of their ingenuousness and untouchedness!" Higgins seems to be filching his greatest talent...
Anna's picture of life on Haugsetvolden is colorful between grim scenes of starvation and cold. Eccentric rustics, of a sort peculiar to rural isolation, make up her little family. Old-Johan, the farmer's half-brother, almost dies of a snake bite that he is too reclusive to mention. A simple woman named Jenny destroys Anna's cabin when she takes seriously someone's joke that "it ought to be burned down...