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...Vesuvian temper is legendary. One of his biographers, Theo Lippman Jr., reports that "he gave us ten interviews for the book [Muskie], and in the last one, we brought up the subject of his temper. He lost his temper." The Republican National Committee, as part of its research on Muskie, has an affidavit from a Maine telephone operator swearing that during a Muskie vacation a few years ago, a telephone repairman had to go up to the Senator's cottage three times to fix a phone that had been ripped off the wall...
...including Labor Secretary James Hodgson and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, cautiously declined under questioning to rule out future controls on profits and dividends, which are not covered by the 90-day freeze. They had little choice but to do so, if only to avoid setting off another fit of temper by A.F.L.C.I.O. Boss George Meany, who adamantly insists that the Administration was unfair to working men and women by freezing wages but not profits. In his Labor Day message, Meany angrily declared that "the President's program does not meet the test of equity"which he defined as equal...
...three weeks ago we had George Shultz and James Hodgson coming, and Mr. Shultz even thought the President might stop by. Well, we lost the President and Mr. Shultz, and Mr. Hodgson is probably down in the cellar somewhere." Meany played the course with three lower-ranking officials. His temper grew still shorter when Hodgson treated Teamster Boss Frank Fitzsimmons and his aides to a special briefing on the freeze at the Labor Department, apparently because their reaction to the Nixon program had seemed favorable. In fact, although the Teamsters hailed it as a "bold measure," they went...
...split is evident in his book, The Beat Generation-part sketchy sociology, part elementary lit. crit., part personal reportage and part casual Ph.D. thesis. "The almost schizophrenic change that has been worked in the temper of our times," Cook proclaims, "was predicted a decade before, implicit in every poem, novel and prose piece produced by the Beat Generation...
This is one of those resounding overstatements at once perfectly true and thoroughly misleading. It is not hard to find elements in Beat writing-or any other serious writing of the time-that predicted something as vague as "almost schizophrenic change" in "the temper of our times." Allen Ginsberg, whose poem Howl is generally thought to have started the literary side of the movement, sang of devastated minds, mysticism and hallucinogenic drugs. Gregory Corso raged against authority, lamented the thinning of his wild hair and questioned the institution of marriage. Jack Kerouac's On the Road bubbled about...