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...Strachey should finally be commemorated by two fat volumes-that standard treatment of the illustrious dead that he was so effective in stamping out." Ironic it is, but not half so much as it would have been if his biographer had followed Strachey's example and given short shrift to one of the best subjects of this century...
Before leaving to deliver that address, Johnson showed his statement to Lady Bird. She changed a few words, then kept the statement. Johnson, convinced that Congress would give short shrift to his legislative program if he announced his withdrawal at that time, had once again deferred the decision...
...poverty, or all of them? Wilbur J. Cohen, a Washington veteran dating back to the early days of the New Deal, was becoming the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Did that presage a new emphasis on domestic programs that have been getting increasingly short shrift as the war has intensified...
...sought in my questioning. The Marxist approach stresses social conflict, the primacy of economic life and the role of the common man in the workings of society and in social change. What in American society and in the social position of American intellectuals can account for the short shrift which such an immensely valuable approach has received, especially in recent decades, from American thinkers? It does not follow automatically, at least to my mind, that the absence or weakness of the Marxist intellectual tradition in America means that the tradition and the questions it asks are without relevance. George Ross...
Pouf of Smoke. Normal dramatic tools like characterization and motivation are given short shrift on M:I Geller & Co. instead believe in fast plots, dazzling footwork, bizarre technical contrivances. It is always the "how" of a story that keeps viewers pinned to their TV sets, since nearly everything else on the program is deliberately made familiar. At the opening, Peter Graves, 41, as Impossible Mission Leader Jim Phelps, enters a phone booth, warehouse or parked car, finds a hidden tape recorder, and turns it on. "Good morning, Mr. Phelps..." it begins, and then outlines the task: recover something crucial that...