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...nourishment from the American heartland, struggled to replenish itself in the physically congenial surroundings of the crop-rich plains of Kansas and Missouri. Yet it was a frail and fractured remnant of the party that had swept to an easy victory only four years ago. Political tempers threatened to soar as high as the 100° temperatures in Kansas City. Whatever the outcome of its most suspenseful national convention in a quarter century, the party seemed lost in its internal battles over nuances of conservatism (see cover story page...
These swings are, humanly enough, magnified by corporate officers, who pooh-pooh losses while boasting about profit increases in hyperbolic press releases. The press then magnifies the problem by often reporting profits in language more appropriate to space shots or sporting events: profits leap, soar, skyrocket-or plunge, plummet, nosedive...
...minutes' duration up there on the roof of the world. The narration is adapted from a diary Miura kept during the several months of hiking and climbing required just to get to the top of his run. There are some attempts at prose poetry that are supposed to soar into the existential stratosphere but succeed only in landing on the ear. But when Miura is not trying too hard, he demonstrates an intelligent self-awareness...
...deductible cash contributions. Fantasize further that the trustees, with impunity, sink the money into anything they like-the pet projects of some dear friends, for example -while at the same time cutting out of the kitty many of the fund's supposed beneficiaries. Now let imagination truly soar: the trust's investment income is all taxfree...
...once carried me on his shoulders through these fields (now he needed my hand). Another friend swallowed by time, my father said. But the old rascal's progeny were all about, he laughed. They could claim the field mice and the unsuspecting young bull snakes. They would still soar on the thermals beneath those towering cumulus clouds and watch over this land as they had done for centuries...