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Until 1932, peacetime federal government meant very little. Americans believed in letting money do as it pleased, with unfortunate results for many people from the start and for almost everybody in the decade of America's greatest economic collapse. For the next 40 years bureaus sprang full-blown from the heads of Democrats, as our nation decided that only collectively could it solve the enormous problems of an imperfect society. But that consensus began to falter in the late 1960s, when Americans chose Richard Nixon, and in 1972, when they chose him again, emphatically. Watergate intervened, throwing an election...
Reed became popular at Harvard after his death from typhus in 1920, and John Reed Societies sprang up here and throughout the country during the 1930s, Pipes said...
...that it would be a while before he would be declared the successor of Austin. At 65, Austin had been Coke's chief for 14 years and had already had his retirement postponed for a year, evidently to allow time to groom a successor. But last week Austin sprang a surprise: much earlier than expected, he announced that when his retirement came at the end of February, his job would go to Goizueta, who will be the first Coca-Cola chief to rise to the top from the technical side of the company...
...truth-seeking scholar and the passionate homosexual lived parallel lives that never touched. The circumstance showed in the verse. It sprang fully formed from the depths of the subconscious, and Housman would not apply to it, the work of the mind. His poetry thus remains a chiseled miniaturization, a little too simple, a shade too accessible. Graves persuasively argues that if the scholar and the poet had joined forces, if the homosexual and the classicist had agreed to cooperate, Housman would surely be ranked with such brooding Victorian giants as Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy...
...days earlier, one reporter noted, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie had taken a far softer line on Clark's joining a ten-member delegation of private U.S. citizens who took part in a Tehran conference on alleged U.S. intervention in Iran. Muskie said that Carter's ban sprang from concern "about the safety of Americans traveling in a country where there is anti-American hostility." Added Muskie: "The purpose of the policy is not to punish people who violate it, but to prevent people from going." Snapped Carter when asked about Muskie's views...