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...back, and perhaps he could not if he tried. Lech Walesa is a man of emotion, not of logic or analysis. So was the movement, which he all but lost control of in the end, guided more by hope and passion than by rationality. That was the crusade's strength???and its weakness...
Going by the London experience, audiences who take Nickleby at full strength???four hours at the matinee, 4½ in the evening?will leave the theater in a state very like rapture. This feeling of giddy awe comes partly from spending a day mesmerized by a brilliant troupe of actors, partly from the seductive effulgence of stagecraft, partly from the simultaneous tugs of farce and melodrama, laughter and tears...
...industrial democracies. It is looked to for guidance and protection by many developing countries. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has challenged not only the U.S., but also that portion of the world sharing America's values and aspirations. The problem is not so much one of U.S. strength???the U.S. is strong indeed?but of applying this strength in ways that make us seem effective, seem wise, and seem responsible leaders of the free world...
Divertissement. To test the repeated British statement that the Admiralty's demands were "absolute"?that is to say not "relative" to U. S. naval strength???Mr. Gibson suddenly proposed last week an arrangement under which the British demands for 7,500-ton cruisers would be largely met, but the U. S. would have a slight supremacy in 10,000-ton cruisers...
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