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...middle-class whites are settling in the District, though not yet in great numbers. Middle-class blacks, in turn, are moving out to the suburbs, and as Peter McGrath and Howard Means pointed out in the October Washingtonian magazine. Prince George's County, Md., may soon provide "the purest test in the area of the ability of blacks and whites to live together." Such facets of Washington life are not the concern of Washington haters, who concentrate their fury on candlelit Georgetown and rich but modest Cleveland Park. Yet their grievances about Washington run far deeper than this...
...whether to bring the constitution home, with a good shot at success. But he feels his recently-won majority mandate is enough for him to schedule a trip to Britain on Royal Canadian Air Force One (which presumably will soon be called Canadian Air Force One). In the purest of senses, he is right--it is time for Canada to have a constitution...
...lose faith, Crimson sports fans. Competition in its purest sense still exists at Harvard...
...campus feminists was twisted and muted by the arrests. Within an hour, instead of basking in the glow of a job well done, they were feverishly preparing a one-page statement explaining that they did not condone censorship and arrests. The people in the saga who acted with the purest motives ended up in worst shape; defending themselves against the charge that they had caused the arrest of two fellow students, Quincy House feminists had no time to exploit the energy and fervor they had raised in the days before the showing...
...Nixon Agonistes, Garry Wills called Ike "a political genius." Nixon, for his part, recorded in his Six Crises that Eisenhower "was a far more complex and devious man than most people realized, and in the best sense of those words." (Those phrases may be the purest elixir of Nixon's thought that was ever bottled...