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...wake of a CIA-sponsored coup: the American government ousted Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh because of his reforms in tax distribution, nationalization of the oil industry, and friendly stance toward the Soviet Union. The CIA installed the Shah as head of state because he was a staunch supporter of the American government...
Meanwhile, the diary continues to evolve untested. A handful of people had paged over sections and catalyzed rumors of its artistry, but they couldn't persuade her to publish. That would cut both an end from her existence--separating her from a "Kief, hashish, and opium pipe," a single staunch friend--and a beginning--because she filters her stories' "myth" and "poem" out of her diary's spreading tide. To Macmillan Co.'s rebuff of her novels as esoteric Nin counters: "An adolescent culture shows the adolescent incapacity to admire, to respect or to evaluate...
...Reed that makes him appealing to a circumscribed strata of the present-day rock culture. It is almost as impossible to penetrate the opaque image that Reed has projected for about a decade as it is to generalize about the classic Reed freak. There are people who have been staunch followers of Reed since his days with the Velvet Underground. Then there are those who discovered Reed with the debut of his solo career. The latter, embarrassed to admit the fact that they were seven years late, quickly bought up all the Velvets previously released albums, added a few scratches...
...support Moses enjoyed from the public was at least partly based on the reputation for reforming liberalism he earned in his early youth. While always calling himself liberal, Moses was a staunch conservative, even a reactionary, underneath. Moses had nothing but contempt for the filthiness and stupidity of the masses for whom he built parks, playgrounds and beaches. He starved mass transit because he was concerned chiefly with the welfare of those citizens substantial enough to own cars. He refused to let the subway system build an extension to Jones Beach--because he didn't want the great unwashed...
...staunch free-marketeer, Greenspan abhors wage-price controls, approves of a firm rein on money supply...