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...vital vote and thus force the government's resignation. A mismanaged Liberal proposal might make it impossible for the N.D.P. to avoid voting with the Tories; a surprise maneuver by the Tories could catch the government short of members when an important vote was called; a Trudeau temper tantrum might shift the mood of the House against...
...surprising to find that Hesse's main dialogue was with her contemporaries in New York: the spiky or woolly boxes of Lucas Samaras, Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures, Jasper Johns' borderline works between sculpture and painting. The remarkably intense exchange recalls, like a lost epoch, the temper of New York...
...York. Clumly glumly delivers speeches on the topic Law and Order. He uses words like cognizant a lot and figures hippies are feckless or degenerate, or both. The state of California he considers a plague area likely to infect the rest of America. In short, given the temper of the times, Clumly seems bound for a caricature pig-of-the-week award, or else a New Centurion's badge for meritorious service. Instead, Gardner pits poor old Clumly against the Sunlight Man, a brilliant existential philosopher, French horn player, gadfly, madman, magician, murderer, idealist and Shavian exponent of Babylonian...
...still has much to celebrate at this season: a recovering economy, a calming of the national temper, the beginnings, at least, of a global detente. Moreover, it is an axiom that, if the good news from Viet Nam is never as good as claimed, the bad news is never as bad as feared. The negotiations may yet be salvaged, but the Administration's severe setback in Paris, the persistent absence of peace, the inability to free the prisoners by Christmas-all these remain bitter blows. They are also reminders that the Viet Nam War seems to have the durability...
...religion and family, all this suggests another famous football coach. In fact, Don Shula has more than once been compared with Vince Lombardi, late mentor of the Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins. There are, as it happens, other traits the two men had in common: an incandescent temper and a penchant for chewing out miscreant players, often in front of their confederates. While Shula is every bit as consecrated as Lombardi was to the idea that "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing," he leans harder on quiet attention to detail and less on histrionics...