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...trouble with plots of this sort is that plotters like Sir John lose all touch with reality. They are so busy hatching refinements of their villainy that they seal themselves off from the daily verities that nourish and sustain the rest of mankind...
...people, the real Greeks, have shown a unique, a quite extraordinary maturity. It's thanks to them and this new-found maturity that I have managed, painlessly and without bloodshed, to open the road to democracy within three months. It is going to be necessary to sustain the momentum over the next four years in order to lay the real foundations for a healthy and responsible democracy. Do you realize that the coming elections are the first this country has had in ten years? If I secure a sufficient majority, I will be able to succeed in giving Greece...
...Meacham: "It was done in the best Texas bushwacker tradition. He was fired in the wrong way on a trumped-up charge." Lady Bird Johnson, the only regent who abstained from the 8-to-O vote upholding the ouster, said in a choked voice, "No great educational institution can sustain its greatness with the frequent and sudden firing of its presidents and deans...
...greed in the world" are bound to make the most subtle, provocative actor or actress sound silly. Maggie Brenner is effective as the jealous, rapidly aging mother who combats loneliness by occasional flights into a world of make-believe. These moments of fanciful imagination would be hard to sustain were they not presented with delicacy and poise. Sometimes Deborah's speeches bog down, though, and she would do well to recite some of the long ones a shade faster...
Foundations are cutting back, but some of that has already happened. Further, a large portion of their funding is committed over a number of years which will sustain current levels of support, admittedly at the expense of new commitments. Corporations with continuing high earnings despite the state of their stock have shown no signs of reducing their contributions...