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Almost all resent the near-total loss of privacy. Ellen Proxmire, former wife of Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire, characterizes the experience in a book about her life in politics, One Foot in Washington. "I sometimes think that goldfish in a bowl are much better off than the public figures they resemble," she writes. "Those who study their silky movements from outside the glass don't criticize what they are wearing, what they do, what they say, what they mean, nor do they ask the fish lots of questions or expect them to do much more than...
Some deeply resent that the decision was couched in the language of religion at all. "Whether or not it was explicitly stated between the two men," says the Rev. L. Harold DeWolf, retired dean of Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., "this was a political payoff. Raking in so much of this religious stuff?God and all that?makes it even worse than it was." Others concede the sincerity of the President's spiritual motives but challenge the wisdom of the act. "Clearly compassion is something we need more of in public life and the administration of criminal justice," declares...
Though it is intended to save them from injury or worse, many motorists resent the "interlock" system on 1974 cars, which prevents the engine from starting until the driver and all front-seat passengers have buckled their seat belts. Impressed by the volume and vehemence of constituent mail on the subject, House members voted two weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened; only a warning...
...talented enough musician to make his piano debut at age 13. Yet Franz was not another Wolfgang and would not push himself. His mother Constanze, whose ambitious nature may be partly explained by the fact that her husband's death left her impoverished, came to resent her son's lackadaisical nature. "Although he gets help on all sides," she wrote to Franz's older brother Karl, an Austrian government official, "he does almost nothing unless he is forced...
...work stoppages, along with strikes in services, were not "bonfires of straw that would go out in a few minutes." Labor leaders, for the most part, are willing to wait until autumn to let the government decrees take corrective effect. But they are being pressed by militant workers who resent the taxes and want to fight them with a general strike...