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...harsh assessment and may yet prove wrong, but it represents a significant feeling that Nixon must overcome. He seems determined to try. "The White House has discovered Congress," observes one presidential aide, "and it is going to be romanced to death." The attempt is crucial, considering the taut and complex political climate and the stern demands that Nixon is making upon the new Congress. At the moment, serious obstacles loom for most of the major proposals Nixon is trying to push through the showdown session. They include...
...Pentagon yearns for the time, perhaps mid-1973, when the Vietnamization program enters Phase III and the U.S. presence can be trimmed to a taut, all-volunteer force of about 40,000 troops, technicians and advisers. For now, however, the Army is trying to devise ways of convincing the troops that they still have a significant mission in Viet Nam. Under a proposed "fire-brigade program," for instance, one Army brigade in each corps area will stand ready to bail out South Vietnamese forces that get into trouble...
...WOMEN in Oates' stories live at a level of intensity which constantly verges on madness. Revealing this intensity is the writer's chief creative strength; artificially manipulating it, her weakness. Many of the stories, which are taut with psychological and surrealistic innuendo, still depend on violent melodrama for their activation. The story "Bodies," about a young sculptress plagued by a series of Dadaesque dreams, reaches a grotesque climax when a man slashes his throat in front of her, twists himself around her hips, splashing her with blood. As the story ends, the woman fears the suicide's blood has impregnated...
Razor-cut, trim, taut, essentially modest but nonetheless more self-confident than at any point in his political career, Muskie understands quite clearly where that speech has left him. There is nothing coy about his ambition. He wants to be President, and he is working hard at it. For months he has been assembling a broad group of advisers, experts in foreign policy, economics, weapons systems, budgets, social programs. In his shadow Cabinet. Cyrus Vance serves as Secretary of State, Walter Heller as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Paul Warnke as Secretary of Defense...
...Webber, the son of a composer, is an articulate champion of all kinds of music who grew up on Bill Haley but customarily recommends Stravinsky's taut, granitic Symphony in Three Movements "as an object lesson to any rock band that wants to play with precision and tight sound." Rice, 25, attended Lancing College, then spent two years working toward a career in law. Together they have fashioned a clever, youthful blend of skepticism and romantic questioning. Early on, Judas reflects on Christ...