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...Nixon folks with his gentle irreverence on one of those wake-up TV shows. "I liked Nixon when he was a Commie fighter," he said. "He believed it. It was pure." Then there was the night Bill Hall, a liberal editor of the Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune, one of those splendid small papers that keep our society awake, found himself defending Nixon before students at the University of Idaho. When Nixon's foreign policy was criticized as too little too late, Hall told the audience that the "what have you done for me lately" approach had two sides...
...Brooklyn. The bearded, black-frocked Lubavitchers are followed on their way through their daily life-pausing to pray in a delicatessen, arguing fine points of the Talmud in a yeshiva, gathering for a discourse from their revered leader, Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, in the synagogue. But there are also splendid celebrations. A bris-the ceremony of circumcision-is majestic and moving. And a rollicking, dancing wedding party, the beards flying as the festive crowd reels to Hasidic tunes, may be the best single moment in the entire series...
President Bok accepted Brooks's resignation and said, "The entire University is in your debt for all the years of splendid service you have given us as dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. We will greatly miss your valuable counsel and wish you every success in your teaching and research...
Much of the caution stems from a recognition that something momentous happened last year: after a long period of almost splendid isolation, the U.S. economy joined the rest of the world. As a result, the nation had to cope with events over which it had only partial control...
Intellectual Fix. No one should be too much put off. The book's quip-filled tirades, like Shaw's prefaces, provide a splendid intellectual fix on the drama. Coffin temporarily leaves his wife and children, as well as Rinsler's movement, which proves as unscrupulous as any Establishment organ. He then tries to practice one-on-one enlightenment as straw boss to a crew of black migrant apple pickers on his ancestral New Hampshire estate. The results are hilarious but depressing...