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...Confused & Stagnant...
Make Up for the Past. Pictured on every poster and saluted by every speaker, Nasser was plainly still enormously popular in the Egyptian streets. His government had overcome the emergency of its Sinai defeat, but had not yet tackled its immense long-term problems (the economy is stagnant, and overcommitted-by as much as 37% of its foreign trade-to the Soviet bloc). Addressing his new one-party Parliament early in the week, Nasser seemed almost too subdued to be true. He summarized his regime's homefront achievements ("Our greatest gain is hope"), and bore down on the need...
...papers, Cox successfully battled "the dangerous and disgraceful regime" of Governor Eugene Talmadge. He was 79 when he bought Atlanta's other daily, the morning Constitution. Asked, like Lewis Carroll's Father William, how he did so much at his age, Cox replied: "Running water never grows stagnant...
Native Springs. Before the native springs of American radicalism were drained into the stagnant pool of the Communist Party, there were generations of hedging and ditching. Engels sadly noted that Americans were "practical" but tremendously backward in "theory." At first the Socialist movement in the U.S. was largely staffed by immigrants who had a sharper taste for theory, and the Socialist Labor Party of North America would have remained a "small, moribund, foreign-language sect" had not practical, native forces been stirring...
...ignorant to cut out Private Ervin's picture, not only because it violates all rules of journalism but because it also violates all moral and social rules. The Morning Star is hardly a newspaper, and anyone who breathes air should see this prime example of the stagnant condition of the South...