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...Tate, a party plodder who inherited the office last year when Crusading Liberal Richardson Dilworth resigned to run unsuccessfully for Governor, would be in trouble with whites for his acquiescence to demands from a notably militant grouping of Negro organizations. As it turned out, Tate won-but by the thinnest edge the Democrats had sweated in twelve years of power...
...feet were twisted into one another, and the toenails looked like they hadn't been out for months, like a hawk's She was the thinnest person I had ever seen: she looked like these pictures from the concentration camps, except that her body was all by itself, and it was green. The skin just flopped ever her bones like the stuff you pick off the top of cocoa with your spoon...
...visit to Frondizi. As the wires hummed between Buenos Aires and Washington, McClintock let it be known that Argentina could expect no aid from the U.S. if the military imposed a new dictatorship on Argentina. "The objective," as one State Department officer put it, "is to preserve even the thinnest skin over this skeleton of legalism rather than see it destroyed and the military rule...
...other musicals leave off; that is, its first lines are "Will you marry me?" and "Yes." In the real world a healing numbness sets in after these words are spoken, but Affair's attempt to convey love's anesthesia at first brings out only the authors' thinnest whimsies. The affianced couple (Larry Kert and Rita Gardner) are a chilly pair, and the opening songs seem less clever than the stage furniture, which wheels magically around during scene changes...
Birmingham's treatment of Harvard is typically superficial. The author obviously didn't know anything about Harvard when he started, and he came up with the thinnest kind of press-release impression. A couple of hoary anecdotes, a list of Harvard Pulitzer Prize winners, a recitation of the various graduate schools, the names of Harvard men who became President of the U.S., almost a page of Harvard writers, the size of the university and its endowment, a quotation from the Information for Prospective Students booklet, a capsule description of the House system, a vague explanation of the tutorial program...