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...officers and Loyalists with names like Shallow and Dupe are trapped in a garrison surrounded on three sides by Rebel forces and on the fourth by the sea. They face a "curs'd alternative, either to be murder'd without or starv'd within." With unmistakable relish, the playwright proceeds to detail the physical and moral collapse of the besieged enemy. Britain's sons of Mars, "the terror of the world," become mere "skeletons, our bones standing sentry through our skins." Speeches about an honorable defeat give way to scatological laments over the breakdown of their...
...G.O.P. leaders over Ford's campaign could not be quelled by cheerleading, and soon the discussion turned more serious. "It seems to me that we have to talk rather plainly," said House Republican Leader John Rhodes, who will preside over the G.O.P. National Convention. "I don't relish the idea of the U.S. having the choice of Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan." He went on: "There are issues being bandied around?like the Panama Canal. It didn't help any to have the negotiations resumed three days before the Texas primary.-It didn't do any good having [Secretary...
...flabbergasted friends by announcing that he had decided to stay out, but would still hold himself available in the "unlikely" event of a convention deadlock. The old (64) warrior explained that he lacked the money and organization to mount his fourth campaign for the White House. Nor did he relish the possibility of another defeat...
...student porter does not relish the though of inspection. In fact, he doesn't like to be inspected...
...course, Kissinger argued that Atherton had gone further than the Secretary had wanted him to. At week's end, Atherton was given a letter of severe reprimand. In any case, Kissinger was reminded by his critics-with some relish-of his double standard on leaks. New York Times Columnist William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter whose phone had been tapped in the 1969 leak investigation, charged that to Kissinger, "the criterion of classification has become intensely personal"-anything embarrassing to him is "top secret" but anything helpful to him "can be leaked with impunity." As Kissinger had discovered...