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...forming Phase II wage guidelines (see THE ECONOMY). President George Meany even refused a White House request to have Hail to the Chief accompany Nixon's entrance. During the speech, some of Nixon's pleas for labor support in carrying out Phase II were greeted with snide laughter...
...Phoenix printed several snide remarks attributed to an alleged former staff aide of mine, an aide they haven't named and I have yet to know. The Crimson refers to "the number of theories surrounding Steve Nelson's abrasiveness and apparent lack of concern for winning votes," and then neatly adds that these theories "all conclude more or less in the same way as his former campaign worker...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday has a rare tension to it. When a character makes a snide remark and swallows it, the line is laughed at and the laugh is clutched. If pathos is evoked, the film's essential rationality beckons us to retreat, without regret, to a world of traffic lights, vandalsim and economic crises--the world of our daily survival. If the film's philosophic viewpoint does not satisfy us completely, it is a measure of the film's quality that we take it seriously enough to judge it by our own lives--as we do with the best...
...summer. The commissioner who had registered her told her she would have to come back and re-register once she had changed her name. The woman told them that she was going through the legal process of retaining her maiden name, but other than a snide query about why she was bothering to get married in the first place then, there was no other response to her explanation. Her name remained off the lists...
...Your report [April 5] on the Dalton School was most unfair. Instead of heaping snide ridicule on the school and Mr. Donald Barr, its headmaster, you should have reported that a group of trustees, in utter disregard of the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the parents, has attempted to oust Mr. Barr. The P.T.A. removed Dr. Myron Hofer, the only representative of the parents on the board of trustees, from his P.T.A. offices because he failed to in form the parents fairly and openly of his and the board's actions. The parents will continue...