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...tunes instead of the traditional martial anthems. The Olympic flame, carried some 3,500 miles by an international team of 5,976 runners, was borne to the torch by Gunter Zahn, 18, West German runner. West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated the games with the prescribed 14-word pronunciamento: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating the XX Olympiad of the modern era." The mountain horns flourished, and 80,000 enthusiastic spectators and hundreds of millions of TV viewers settled back to watch the drama begin...
...featherheaded rabble," and "this whole business is nothing but politics." Carnovsky is marvelously forceful in describing his job ("Kings, my girl, have other things to do than to surrender themselves to their private feelings."), and in his extended Homeric simile about the ship of state, culminating with the terrible pronunciamento, "Nothing has a name--except the ship, and the storm...
...When Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz went to Bal Harbour to argue the "good sense" and "good results" of the guidelines, the labor barons were hostile. "We bounced him around a bit," one official said of the private meeting with Wirtz. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats. "I'm quite sure the labor movement is prepared to make its own way politically," harrumphed the old Bronx plumber. "I don't buy the idea that we have no place to go. Some of the Democrats seem...
...Peppery Pronunciamento. The President signed dozens of bills, notably the pork-barrel measure authorizing $1.9 billion for various river and harbor projects, and the $4.3 billion public works bill. After he signed the rivers-and-harbors bill, Johnson issued a peppery pronunciamento warning that he had absolutely no intention of implementing the act's provision that water-resources projects costing under $10 million be authorized by congressional public works committees-a short cut that would bypass the possibility of a presidential veto. Discussing this section, the President declared: "The people of this country did not elect me to this...
There is nothing really new about the Friedan argument except its language. Her book, in fact, is merely one more pronunciamento of the 20th century feminist movement. It owes a consider able debt to that formidable French non-housekeeper, Simone de Beauvoir, who in The Second Sex insisted that any woman who submits to housework betrays "a kind of madness bordering on perversion...