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Compare that with Edmund Burke's celebrated 18th century address to the electors of Bristol, in which he promised the voters not obedience to their desires but the free exercise of his judgment. Burke's elevated remark won an enduring place in political history-but he soon fell out of favor with his Bristol electors. America's founding fathers decreed that Congressmen should face re-election every two years to give them "immediate dependency" on the electorate. A public that scorns Congress as a whole usually likes its own Congressman, particularly if he has made...
...Angeles printmaking firm of Gemini G.E.L., had developed into one of the few major graphic artists in Amer ica. The print suited his liking for swift assemblies of images, and his rest less improvisation tested the limits of defining a print. The latest result includes some of the most remark able graphic images made by a liv ing artist: Rausehenberg's Hoar frost suite, including Mule (see color page...
...Nessen compounded the error by declaring that the President stood by his statement. Kissinger finally managed to make the remark ap pear to be ambiguous, as if the President had some remote Machiavellian purpose in saying it. That is diplomatically acceptable...
Although the remark on possible intervention was just a very small part of a lengthy interview, it was picked up and headlined by newspapers and wire services around the world. Standing alone, the statement almost seemed as if Kissinger were already mobilizing troops. The reaction was immediate, emotional and sharply negative. "A colonialist enterprise doomed to failure," thundered Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, reacting to his own reading of the Kissinger statement. "Gunboat policies," ridiculed Pravda. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat warned that the oil-producing Arab nations would blow up their wells rather than let them be seized...
...talk. He can. But he just gets the job done..."; and when one of the hangers-on in attendance, an old Boston football expert asked by the M.C. to explain why that week's games had been such high-scoring affairs, answered: "This may sound like a stupid remark, but now you've got a lot of colored boys playing football, and they're damn good athletes who put a lot of pep into the game...