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These are bleak times for Harvard undergraduates. While our friends at other colleges frolic on vacation or settle themselves in for a new term, the weeks ahead hold only anxiety and depression, as we scowl away in a gloomy series of library carrels...
...Chest heaving and frowning become measures of character. Entrapment, humiliation, accusation and scorn rise above sympathy and understanding. The debates and their breathless aftermaths demand a winner. If there is none on first viewing, one will be created. One contender is expected to exult and preen, the other to scowl and slink out of town, like Floyd Patterson after his K.O. by Sonny Listen in Chicago. It is the heavyweight championship of politics, and in the ensuing days the air waves are filled with videotape highlights. It is a lousy way to choose a President, and has been since...
Diplomats who for more than a quarter-century have learned to read the lines on Gromyko's face for clues about Soviet moves abroad have noticed that the fleeting smile that he would offer during the halcyon days of détente has turned to a quasipermanent scowl. His lips seem pursed to utter a defiant nyet at a moment's notice. Says a West German official recently returned from Moscow: "His is the first face you see when you arrive and the last face you see when you leave. These days it is not a pleasant face...
...arrogance and evasiveness. John Harkins, a close physical match for Chambers, is eerily effective as the tormented ex-Communist turned passionate antiCommunist. As Nixon, who built his political career on his role in the Hiss case, Peter Riegert (who starred in the film Local Hero) maintains a steady scowl but avoids facile parody...
...have offered to kick in with a new telephone system, which will be an improvement over the present three long rings and a short, and then dead silence most of the day. The Libyans are present too in one of their "people's bureaus," but they tend to scowl, never remove their hats and announce the same $4 million loan so often that some Grenadians believe that the figure has now risen to $8 million or $12 million. The Cubans seem to be doing the work for everybody else: they have 400 men driving steamrollers and laying down asphalt...