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...would involve a mass mailing of over 100,000, the costs of which would be twice the Review's annual budget. After more than 75 years existence, The New Republic has a subscription list of less than 25,000; despite and extensive campaign to increase the list of subscribers, success has been minimal. The New Republic's inability to boost its circulation provides ample evidence of a non-expanding market for political analysis; under such tight conditions, the Review had no choice but to troop back to the Student Advisory Committee and ask for continued subsidization...
Handy attributed Blair and Levin's success to their consumption of egg salad sandwiches before the match...
What Pasqualini has to say doesn't diminish the success of the Chinese in eliminating hunger, improving health, and accomplishing a spate of other feats that foreign visitors have admired, but it affirms the disturbing fact that they have had to cause deliberate suffering to reach these goals. Maybe the less complementary side of the Communist effort, which Pasqualini opens to view, has been neglected here because it deflates the natural and popular hope that an ideal society is possible and in-the-making somewhere in the world. This hope presupposes a society we could emulate if we were worthier...
...early success, Bailey has been having a hard time in recent years. In fact, the Hearst case represents something of a comeback try for him, and he needs a convincing victory in Judge Carter's courtroom almost as badly as do Patty and the Hearsts. His problems have been a result of the same zeal that brought him his triumphs. In 1968, Bailey angrily wrote the New Jersey Governor charging that a murder prosecution of a Bailey client would be based knowingly on perjured testimony, then carelessly distributed the letter so widely that it swiftly leaked to the press. Though...
...mask of success is a deception because behind it is hidden a very terrible face." At his bleakest moments, he swears that had he known where acting would lead him, he would have become an engineer. "Nonsense," says Lina Wertmuller. "Giancarlo was born to be an actor. He was born to work at my side. And I was born to work at his. Our fates are sealed...