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...proteans, as the authors awkwardly refer to them, steered SDS for four years, eventually fading from prominence when their theories failed to translate into long-term success with projects such as ERAP. A new, non-Jewish psychological type grabbed the reins and evolved into what the authors call the rigid authoritarian rebel": all of the protean's hang-ups, minus his respect for intellectual matters and his adherence to non-violent tactics. Total immersion in anti-war protest became inevitable after the huge U.S. troop deployments of 1965 and intensification of the draft, say Rothman and Lichter...
Eventually, the candidate began distributing separate resumes for his Mexican audiences that did not explicitly refer to his K-School background, saying only that he had studied abroad...
Interviewer: You feel that the three principal characters in the opera are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth-to whom you charmingly refer simply as "Lady"-and the witches. The women of the Met chorus dig into their demonic roles impressively. And Mimes, after taking four months off from opera last season to recover from a throat ailment, is singing more robustly than ever. But what about Madame Scotto as your Lady...
...York plausibly evokes a person looking down on the metropolis from the 27th floor of a hotel to find that the "glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel-they're making me feel I'm home." Plausible? In London, Thornton Wilder once provoked astonishment by referring to his temporary accommodations as home. How use the hallowed word to refer to a hotel room? Explained Wilder: "A home is not an edifice, but an interior and transportable adjustment." It is surely that, along with all else, as immigrants to the U.S. prove over and again: while they...
...have been decorated with five gold stars as a Hero of the Soviet Union and of Socialist Labor, his country's equivalent of both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Brezhnev's colleagues in the Politburo had even been known to refer to him as vozhd (roughly, great leader), a title previously given only to Lenin and Stalin. Privately, Soviets joked about the cult of personality that gradually surrounded their President as he fought against the inexorable frailties of old age. It was said, for example, that he had even outdone Stalin...