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...President." They spent $75,000-in cash and donated materials-for the links, and published a brochure that uses poetry to describe the course's splendors. It has one artificial water hazard, two sand traps, and springhole cups that pop a ball out after it is sunk...
...local doctor Astrov (George C. Scott) yearns for a Russia that would not brutalize its peasants and ravish its land, but disillusion has sunk him in drink. He too falls half in love with Elena, and she with him, but she is too indolent and conventional to make an erotic leap to freedom. Poor Sonya loves Astrov-a futile, heartbreaking hope that exists only to be dashed. When Vanya learns that Serebryakov proposes to sell the estate, he goes staggeringly blind with rage and fires two revolver shots at the professor, missing both times-the ultimate, humiliating proof...
Faust has always relied on cultural trivia to create atmosphere. In his five-short-story collection, Roar Lion Roar (1965), the artifacts of popular culture actually possessed Faust's characters like real demons. In Foreign Devils, however, the Boxers, Benny Goodman, the basketball fixes of 1951, etc. have sunk to the level of mere nostalgia. One of America's chief natural resources, no doubt, but grossly overexploited at the moment. *R.Z. Sheppard
Nixon has never been unresponsive to tactical shifts in political position. But in recent weeks, even he has sunk to depths he had never fathomed before. Throughout his career, Nixon's most laudable quality was his unwavering loyalty to his political (and non-political) cronies. But as the recent White House shake-up has shown, even this unfailing loyalty is no longer sacrosanct. When Nixon's White House gestapo could no longer cover up for itself, der fuehrer exterminated the vermin...
Thus, Cambridge sunk deeper and deeper into her own vulnerability. Each violent demonstration, each overt act of violence compounded not only the misery of the poor, but the threat of serious breach of national security...