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...would short-circuit the constitution and has already enraged politicians of all parties, his grandiloquent dialogue between "you Frenchmen and Frenchwomen and my self" only heightened the curious blend of awe, irritation and amusement with which most Frenchmen today regard their President. Through endless anecdotes, his mordant wit and sovereign self-assurance have become as firmly lodged in the French imagination as Cyrano's nose...
...Philadelphia. They gamely took on all comers, from the New York Giants to a pickup squad of actors and writers at the Bucks County (Pa.) Playhouse Inn. The result after a dozen matches: a dozen triumphs for the Britons. "It appears," said British Team Captain Peter Freeman with sovereign contempt, "that America's best players are only slightly superior to America's worst...
...enforceable international rule of law, systematic and deliberate denial of human rights. Our time has known in full measure the tragedy suffered by countless human beings over the face of the globe who, deprived of their liberty without accusation, without trial, upon nothing but the arbitrary fiat of a sovereign government, have been helpless to challenge their detention in a world forum...
...Last fall Dwight Eisenhower led a band of Pennsylvania Republicans who urged Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., Ike's last and ablest Defense Secretary, to be their candidate for Governor or U.S. Senator this year. After agonizing over the decision, Tom Gates refused. Only a few months earlier, he had accepted a job as chairman of the executive committee of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., whose assets of $5.2 billion make it the fifth largest U.S. bank, and he did not want to leave that job. Last week the full reason for Gates's decision became clear...
...consanguinity. The letters are also a vivid portrait of the artist as a young man-for Agee remained a young man to the day of his death, with all a young man's prodigal energies and frustrated intentions. In his introduction, Critic Robert Phelps calls Agee "a born, sovereign prince of the English language." But the letters proved in a sad way, that the language was his sovereign. Agee had an angel's talent, and he wrestled all his life to bring it to earth...