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...staid, prosperous New Haven lawyer, Trumbull has printed (anonymously, to be sure, although his authorship is already known), a second and even more surprising epic satire. He has not been an incendiary Patriot by any means, yet the new burlesque...
...bumper sticker seen on many cars in Salisbury these days. Signs in public places warn against loose talk that might jeopardize security. STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS CAN KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers. More houses than ever...
...starling thing about this book is what it reveals about the little old ladies who take their shopping bags to Bloomingdales, who attend B' nai Brith functions, who sit on park benches outside old age homes. I know I've been startled like this before-for instance, when a staid and jewel-bedecked elderly woman, whom I had automatically dismissed as uninteresting, somehow began to recount a tale of wandering barefoot and starving through wartime Russia with her little boy, begging for food and shelter. And there is the vague memory-did I invent it ?-of hearing my own grandmother...
...that badly for his country. While he failed to inspire, he at least proved that Britain was still governable. It was, after all, barely more than a year ago that some British rightists were muttering about fielding private armies to take on the unions, and even the staid London Times was wondering whether this was Britain's "last-chance Parliament." That such talk has now subsided is at least partly due to Harold Wilson...
...desperado Reagan was chasing in the Florida primary was only Gerry Ford, stumbling, bumbling, but still president--and staid Republicans love their incumbents. Reagan got his voters committed early--it looked like he was off to a steaming start--but the Republicans on the patios sat back undecided and finally, safely, went to Ford. Reagan wilted...