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Amid all this, the President tried to exude optimism about business and sent his economic advisers to various platforms to proclaim that all will be well. Yet Nixon seems to be paying less and less attention to them. He neither consulted nor informed his chief economic advisers about his decision to go into Cambodia. Some men inside his divided Administration believe that the President's political aides have become more influential than his economic aides on business matters, and that he appears to be shutting himself off from his best sources of economic counsel...
After the show the people on the speakers stage trashed the television. The whole scene was a little like something from Stephen Crane. The Night Before the Battle. Gathered around the campfire the troops heard speakers proclaim that this would be the last night of the old order, that the sunrise tomorrow would bring a new world. We sang "Turn, Turn, Turn." and went home, and the less cynical among us were moved...
...drawn fondly from stock theatrical figures: "The boneheaded gold-hearted country squire in plus fours, the pert and resourceful servant, the grim but reliable chatelaine, the sweet guileless young lovers, the comic Anglican clergyman." Only a writer who can bring such scarecrows to life would be willing to proclaim, let alone admit, that his characters come out of a fusty stage wardrobe. In The Eve of Saint Venus, this miracle is performed...
...world. In the same spirit in which schoolboys surreptitiously carve their initials on a desk, passers-by like to leave a record of their presence wherever they may go, either writing or carving their names and messages onto the nearest surface. Graffiti are simply man's attempt to proclaim his immortality against irreversible odds: he will die, but his name, crudely hewn in some rock of ages, will nevertheless endure...
...court of county commissioners and won control of the county school board in elections last summer. Ralph Abernathy, Martin Luther King's successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, mounted the high dive at the once segregated swimming pool in Eutaw, the county seat, to proclaim victory. Since then, white disbelief ("Why, they had card files of voters," says an astonished and chagrined white assistant county agent) has turned into plaintive resignation...