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...River. Working in George's immense shadow bred a wry modesty in Ira. For a 1959 collection of his lyrics, he wrote that "any resemblance to actual poetry, living or dead, is highly improbable." True, when printed on the naked page. But dressed in a sumptuous refrain and delivered by the right performer, Ira's lyrics could sing like sonnets...
...they have not weakened my resolve to continue to expose the horrors of the Cuban regime. Recently in Paris, a person who introduced himself as an official of the Cuban embassy requested a meeting with me to "show me proof that would be made public if I did not refrain from my "counterrevolutionary" activities. My answer caused him to slam down the phone. Subsequently, I received an anonymous telephone call warning me they would make public a film showing me exercising. They were, I presume, hoping to discredit my claims of paralysis. Finally, Fidel Castro wrote to French Communist Party...
...have to go and then possibly be blown away. The threat of a nuclear holocaust actually allows us only to be passive: there is no exact and sure terrain. That there is not even a way to estimate how much of the world might be scorched acts as a refrain to whatever we do. Viet Nam was 'over there.' This is 'everywhere.' My guess is that now the fear quotient is greater and that in response to a horror we can find no limits to, people appear passive, and that this passivity is mistaken for conservatism...
...vaguest possible economic declaration to emerge from the Williamsburg conference, mainly because any detailed document would probably have dwelt on the problems caused by high U.S. budget deficits and interest rates. Reagan was offered some protection from criticism by the implicit protocol of such conferences, in which members refrain from trying to dictate specific internal policies to other participants. Neither West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl nor Mitterrand pressed for any direct steps to tackle the problem of high interest rates. "I'm not here to give anyone lessons," said Mitterrand diplomatically, "but the results of continuing high budget deficits...
...first recommendation was that ethical factors should be taken into account Eleven out of 12 of the Committee's members concluded that at a minimum the University should not hold shares in companies which receive unsatisfactory ratings on the Sullivan Principles. Thus the second recommendations was that Harvard should refrain from purchasing shares in such companies and should sell its stocks in them if correspondence with management over a year and a half fails to convince them to abide by the Principles. This recommendation differed from the University's present practice in three respects. It called...