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...radio show, broadcast weekly "from ocean to ocean, with lotions of love," makes Winchell, in every sense, a media monster. He knows there is something cancerous about American celebrity ("The spotlight," he says, "sheds a poison"), but he can't see that he himself will eventually succumb. In the '50s Winchell gets trounced by television while archrival Ed Sullivan becomes an unlikely Sunday-night institution. A scrappy booster of F.D.R.'s, Winchell gets flummoxed and outfoxed by Roy Cohn and the red- baiters. An anomaly, Winchell throws in his famous fedora and moves to a resentful retirement in Arizona. Herr...
...clear signs of a national and religious renaissance, that Russians have always been hostile to the socialist system and even that they harbored defeatist sentiments during World War II. These ideas, which I may have oversimplified somewhat, are little short of myths. If our people and our leaders ever succumb to such notions, the results could be tragic...
...sort of a nutty thing, but I feel a lot of enjoyment watching the show. It pulls me into this other world that I don't know about." Well, if he doesn't know about it, what are we outsiders to do? Nothing but sit back and succumb to the spell...
...demand the lands lost to Poland after World War II. What does concern them is , Kohl's survival. Their calculation is simple: Germany's continued economic, political and military integration into a unified Europe is essential for world peace. They fear that Kohl's opponents, the Social Democrats, might succumb to neutralism, with unforeseeable consequences as Germany flexes its considerable economic muscle in the coming effort to rebuild Eastern Europe...
...recessionary forces. In the postwar era, the most commonly prescribed medicine for an economic downturn has been fiscal stimulation. But persistently high federal deficits, even during periods of robust economic growth, have taken that option off the shelf. Some economists fear that if a recession does strike, Washington could succumb to policy paralysis...