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Matthiessen frames his story in the buffetings of tides and storms. Not for nothing is Watson slaughtered shortly after the passage of Halley's comet and a mighty hurricane. The weather is always restless, "the wild tread of God" often heard and felt. Occasionally the terrain gets cluttered. But Matthiessen is a man who can write his way out of any storm. What an old-timer says of his wood pony applies equally to Matthiessen: He can "turn on a dime and give back nine cents change." On a good day, maybe even eleven...
...formation of NOW's commission is a sign that the natives are restless. If the Democrats hope to remain this nation's majority party, they had better heed the warning: stand up for the liberal constituency, or pass the gavel to somebody else...
...spending fortunes to keep up with the Schmidts; money appears to be no object ( in the pursuit of distinctive art or eye-catching design in clothes, cars, houses, even the simplest household objects. A society long praised -- and sometimes derided -- for an overgrown work ethic has turned its restless energies to the cultivation of leisure. Enveloped in superlatives, West Germany has emerged as one of the world's most affluent societies: the nation with the largest trade surplus; the greatest per capita concentration of high- performance automobiles; the best wages for the shortest work week; and the most rewarding...
...never been to school and insists that he is glad not to have to go. With his olive-brown eyes and brown curls peeping out from under his wool cap, he looks like any of the thousands of Afghan boys who loiter, energetic and restless, in Pakistani refugee camps. But there is something different about him. It is not in his face, which is babyish, or his hands, callused and blackened. It is the look behind his eyes, the dulled expression of a seasoned grunt...
...final blow came when a committee of staffers, ironically formed by Garrett, presented Grosvenor with a report calling for some changes to allow for the advancement of the young and the restless and to improve the management of the magazine. Grosvenor's reply was to name William P.E. Graves, 63, to replace Garrett at the top editor's post, thus seeming to signal a return to more predictable stories and modest aspirations. Said one depressed insider: "It's like a morgue over there right now, and everybody's just wandering around in a stupor wondering what they're going...