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...that event, says Columnist Levin with relish, Wilson will end up "with egg on both sides of his face, and reaping the reward that comes in good time to those who, insufficiently supplied with principles to act upon, act upon expediency and get it wrong...
...Snowball's Chance. The date that really interests Ky is, of course, Oct. 3, 1971-election day. Ky has often said that "I'm not a good No. 2 man for anyone." He would plainly relish being the flamboyant No. 1 again, as he was from 1965 until the election of 1967, when the U.S. and the generals in Saigon coaxed him into running as Thieu's Vice President. But the power of American political persuasion is receding along with the American presence in South Viet Nam, and Ky is once again striking...
...hundred years have passed since the Paris Commune was crushed; the event, a coarse bloom of indigenous French socialism, has been the horror of the bourgeoisie because of its bloodshed and its affronts to property and the delight of the Marxists for reasons roughly similar. Marxists do not relish violence per se, but there is no denying that French history furnishes the most spectacular, the most theatrical examples of bourgeois squalor and proletarian idealism, tailored along lines which, since they are the stuff of history, cannot be mimicking a Marxist schema, even when they appear to be doing just that...
...rare encounters with reporters, he seems clearly to relish the role. He dominates the gatherings of administrators and calmly assures the press that he does have the authority to take steps he feels necessary...
...aides have also been reviewing the Administration's general tone, its voices as well as its policies. Almost without question, the G.O.P. congressional campaign left Nixon sobered and disappointed. It may be, too, that the spasms of electoral polemics and his long brawl with Congress have, despite his relish for a fight, offended Nixon's sense of orderly governmental process. Now he is steering toward conciliation and concrete accomplishment, muting the rhetoric that has made some Republicans come to feel that Spiro T. Agnew did the G.O.P. more harm than good in the elections...