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...greatest fear is that decentralization would make Legal Services more vulnerable to pressure from city halls and statehouses. "When a difficult case comes up, like suing Governor Reagan," says one A.B.A. representative, "there's a tremendous amount of political pressure. A regional OEO director can't resist it the way an attorney can. And when a legal program has to start giving in to political pressure, you might just as well junk the whole program...
...keep the series' scriptwriters from turning the neurasthenic homemaker into a Mr. Belvedere, a kind of prissy know-it-all. "I must remain a kind of male Jewish mother, manipulating others as hysterical people do," says Randall. At the same time, he adds, Klugman has had to resist a depiction of Oscar as "excessively crass and vulgar, an unattractive middle-aged girl chaser. In the play, he is really a sensitive man. His sloppiness is merely neurotic...
...Unhappily," Sutherland added, "people want to have guns: to go hunting and to protect their homes against criminals." The new climate of violence has given frightened citizens one more reason to resist giving up their "rights as Americans" to carry arms...
...successor, one thing is certain: though he will be in formal command of the most populous (33.5 million) and powerful country in the Arab world, he will enjoy only a fraction of the authority that Nasser wielded. The key question is whether he will be sufficiently strong to resist Arab pressure to resume the war with Is rael. Nasser had been well aware of this dilemma. A few years ago, he told a British biographer, David Wynne-Morgan: "I categorically do not want to go to war with Israel. But any Arab leader who says so will...
Core of Life. After a few minutes, Dr. Houston said that my hands would begin to feel light and to rise. I was aware that I could easily resist this suggestion; yet, when I progressively "let go" of them, my hands did indeed become light and buoyant. At Dr. Houston's suggestion, I began "flying." Not literally, of course, but never except in dreams have I felt so ecstatically the sensation of flight-free, joyous, yet peaceful, ever deeper to the center of my being, until I was conscious of an indescribable unity within myself and with all things...