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Denton has an ideal plinth from which to proclaim his strident anti-Soviet views. He is chairman of a new Judiciary Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism. At recent hearings, Denton depicted a pervasive, secret Soviet influence within the U.S. and suggested that Moscow had stopped short of using terrorism in this country only to leave America "a sleeping giant" until too late. Liberals and civil libertarians are worried about groups that Denton may try to investigate as part of the "disinformation" conspiracy, such as antinuclear organizations and a Washington-based liberal think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies. Some critics...
...meetings that followed during the next two days, Schmidt was his usual bristly, outspoken self. One of his primary concerns was what he perceives as the Administration's strident saber-rattling against the Soviet Union. The Chancellor has become increasingly critical of Soviet expansionism in the past year. At the same time he fears that the U.S. is not trying hard enough to open a dialogue with the Soviets and thus defuse East-West tensions. "Schmidt wants to be assured that our policy toward the Soviet Union is more than one of simple hostility," said a senior U.S. diplomat...
...their noisy and strident confidence, the Marxist left has also suffered some setbacks. Labor's impressive showing in the recent local elections, in which Conservatives lost control in 23 of 54 counties, has given some encouragement to party moderates. Michael Foot used the occasion to proclaim that "the alternative government of the country is in a pretty healthy state...
Felix Frankfurter was a Jewish immigrant who became an Anglophile snob. He was a shameless flatterer who fired a secretary for flattering him. He could be sparkling, open and warm. He could also be strident, bitter and neurotic. Fifteen years after his death, Frankfurter remains one of the most influential jurists of this century. Yet while serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, he increasingly failed to sway his colleagues. He was an early supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a defender of Sacco and Vanzetti. Yet, as a Justice, he spent 24 years vainly trying to halt...
...Sardi's back in the old days--back when gangsters went there, and showgirls, and all those members of what they called high society. Tommy's is like that too, in that too--in a strangely refracted way. The gangsters are usually crypto-punks in tortured leather, the showgirls strident and society--well, society usually consists of Keezer's on parade--but still, it has a certain something to it like Sardi's used to. It has that certain je ne sais quoi--I guess you could call it desperation. You see, nobody I've ever really wanted to meet...