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...petty and spiteful, and political London last week was talking of little else. For years Labor Party insiders have clucked and gossiped about the peculiar relationship between former Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Lady Falkender, 44, his longtime and often evil-tempered private political secretary, who was just plain Marcia Williams before Wilson recommended her for a life peerage in 1974. Now Joe Haines, who served as Wilson's press secretary from 1969 until the Prime Minister's retirement from No. 10 Downing Street last April, has drafted a poison-pen portrait of Lady Falkender more lacerating than...
...meet the many requests for visits to campuses I have had to call upon my field colleagues and other associates to undertake more of this work, which is assuming something of a ministry; for it is plain that the word we bring is something that many young people have longed to hear, namely that America is a part of the great Western World whose roots lie in the Mediterranean and whose branches lie on far-flung continents...
...just plain didn't have enough depth in running to match the challenge they put up," McCurdy said. "And that's been pretty much the story all year...
...psychologism cannot be dismissed so easily. The question still remains: what motivated Weil's deliberate self-destruction? Could Weil really have been as sound-mindedly generous and saintly in her suffering as Hardwick asserted in her review, and as Petrement argues throughout this study? Isn't there something just plain wrong with someone who makes a vocation out of subjecting herself to the same oppression that prisoners and workers--whom Weil called "the humiliated layer of the social hierarchy"--had to face? (Compassion is one thing, but self-torture is another...
Some evidence of the difficulties Soviet dissidents face was made plain last week in a letter by Sakharov himself to Carter, which was delivered to the State Department by an American civil liberties lawyer who had met Sakharov in Russia the week before. In the letter Sakharov said that dissidents have "a hard, almost unbearable situation" in the East bloc countries and argued that "our and your duty is to fight for them...