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...bromide of American politics that Presidents "grow" in office. But some have actually shrunk in the job, and most have remained depressingly the same in character and ability. Truman was one of the few who demonstrated a capacity to change with the demands of his epoch. It is that capacity that underlies the wistful longings of Trumania...
...worse than those of almost any other local government: no other municipality faces a threat of being unable to meet its payroll or pay off creditors. But the difference is one of degree, not of kind; other states and cities are also trying to cope with inflated costs, recession-shrunk revenues and mounting debt. Like New York, they are laying off employees, cutting services (including, in some cases, police and fire protection, and garbage pickup), borrowing heavily against the future and raising taxes-all actions that could weaken the national economy's recovery from recession...
...like your Essay. The area of the world in which the U.S. should be "prepared to commit itself seems to have shrunk drastically in the past 14 years. Is this because "the world changed," or is it because our wisdom and resolve have also shrunk? At this rate, maybe in another 14 years a TIME Essay will give a new list of "top priorities": Washington, D.C., New York City, Cape Cod, Miami Beach. I preferred Kennedy's inaugural pledge...
...Zhivago. Now we're back to the Russian Revolution again. If this mammoth, loud, soppy dinosaur was shrunk down to its value as cinema (not cinerama) it would fit in Eisenstein's left nostril, who would no doubt, blow it out as quickly as he could...
Even if South Viet Nam survives, at best it will be in truncated form, having shrunk to the provinces around Saigon and the Mekong Delta. Even so, it was abundantly clear that Thieu's decision two weeks ago to abandon some outlying hard-to-defend provinces to the Communists had started a rout of his forces...