Word: pendulums
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Partly as a result of Nofziger's involvement, and partly as compensation to offended conservatives, the pendulum of political appointments has swung decisively to the right. Exults placated Conservative Digest Publisher Richard Viguerie: "Until now, it seemed that if you were a longtime Reagan supporter you were persona non grata at the White House. It's hard to have Reaganism without Reaganites." But others, including some in the Administration, are concerned that things may be going too far. Says one West Wing aide: "Good, solid Republican types are getting screwed...
...George Balanchine, then 21, provided the incidental choreography. But noble lineage does not burden this opera in the way that it does Satie's Parade, probably because it offers ample possibilities for different interpretations. The little boy (played by Mezzo-Soprano Hilda Harris) defies his mother, wrecks a pendulum clock, trashes a teapot, tears his books, rips the wallpaper off the wall, pulls the cat's tail and more...
...hostages, a flurry of activity in Tehran, Washington and Algiers raised hopes last week that a possible settlement might at last be imminent. Or was it? The nation's very capacity for optimism seemed to have been blunted by 14 months of watching the cruel pendulum swing between hope and disappointment...
Some people used to complain about what they called an "imperial presidency," but now the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. We have not an imperial presidency but an imperiled presidency. Under today's rules, which include some misguided "reforms," the presidency does not operate effectively. That is a very serious development, and it is harmful to our overall national interests...
Topical time haunts the novel; it is the center of these impersonal forces, their measure. Characters swing with "the pendulum of an era," obeying some physics of oscillatory motion. But below the philosophic dimension we recognize a close attention to contemporary detail of world and cultural history. We see "brutish, bottomless" Australia during the war and after, when Caro and Grace Bell are there, existing in the unimpassioned hopelessness and nowhereness of a place where "history's shrivelled chronicle" has already "terminated in unsuccess." When their mother drowns in a bizarre boating accident, we read, "Greece fell, Crete fell, there...