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There is plenty of blame to be shared in this three-ring tax fiasco. The White House staff blames Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman for letting his committee spin out of control and Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal for ineffective and halfhearted lobbying. The Treasury Department blames Ullman for bending meekly with shifting political breezes and the White House staff for not paying attention to the changes in committee sentiment. Ullman mostly blames the White House staff and the President. "Carter has a singular view of things and says he always wants the ideal and the ultimate," complains Ullman...
Vance, with a 5-in. stack of black ring-binder briefing books in front of him, opened the talks by presenting new American proposals on how to resolve the key remaining technical problem: restrictions on developing new missile systems. This would be part of a three-year protocol that would accompany a SALT II treaty limiting levels of current offensive nuclear systems until 1985. Gromyko had proposed at the ministers' May meeting in Washington that new development be banned for the duration of the treaty, but the U.S. contended, as one delegate put it, "that was a goddam joke...
...came out from England to run St. Augustine's. The dirt road twists and turns its way up a hillside, into which are built low, one-story brick classroom buildings and dormitories, shaded by long verandas and heavy foliage. St. Augustine's 14th century bell continues to ring out across the valley. As the African sun climbs through the mist to strike the treetops, the hill rings too with the sound of children's voices...
Perhaps it is time to take a look at Dylan-as-Entertainer, as the charges of sell-out begin to ring more and more trite, if no less true; now more than any time in the past few years Dylan is trying out a new style both on the road and in the studio. After seeing Neil Diamond play Las Vegas, Dylan turned his attention to making his own concerts more "entertaining," even going so far as to hire Diamond's manager. Perhaps that explains the liner photo chosen for Street Legal-a shot of Dylan in a white suit...
Twelfth Night drew on a number of common devices of the time. Indeed Shakespeare himself had made use of mistaken twins, a wooer by proxy in disguise, and a crucial letter and ring in his much earlier Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona. What sets Twelfth Night above its immediate and more remote predecessors is its great skill in combining three plots, its masterly preparation for peak scenes, its more subtle and less garish character painting, the richness of thematic overtones and undertones, and the substantial integration of sung music into its spoken music...