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...Webster prepares for his Senate hearings, he is likely to have little time for his fiercely competitive tennis games or his weekends on the farm in rural Missouri. A widower with three grown children, Webster seldom drinks anything stronger than soda pop and is a devout Christian Scientist. A history and poetry buff, he is fond of quoting Lincoln and John Kennedy, a choice that displays admirable bipartisanship, if nothing else...
...often, student attitudes are marked by naivete. Politics is seldom taught in school, and many students are the first members of their families to have received a higher education. They are often attracted by the latest intellectual fashion or the best conspiracy plot. One theory now making the rounds is that the small CIA team that supposedly engineered the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines has arrived in Seoul to topple Chun...
...brutish killers as victims of the pig establishment and has a mouth like a Kalashnikov on full automatic. Recalls Broderick: "Bed was where she held forth on genocide and Yanqui imperialism and racism and political prisoners and Amerika with a k, each topic an aphrodisiac in itself. There was seldom any postcoital tristesse...
...shows they ought to watch. In the first group are the platoons of super-heroes, Smurfs and toy-store transplants that fill the dial on Saturday mornings and weekday afternoons. In the second are those earnest after-school specials and occasional PBS offerings praised by critics and parents but seldom watched by more than a fraction of the youngsters who crowd in front of the set for He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Square One TV, the new PBS mathematics series produced by the Children's Television Workshop, is not likely to beat out He- Man either...
...those in any society who are forever young, or venturesome, or lonely or simply careless. To pause on the downhill slope of passion, to call time out from rapture and contemplate that this single act could be fatal, is only marginally more imaginable than the pause that too seldom occurs to consider whether this single act will create an unwanted life...