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...final gala dinner, the German Chancellor nearly forgot to wear the lapel button of his brand new Grand Cross of the Legion d'honneur, then suffered a brief moment of panic when he discovered his dinner jacket had no buttonhole. The situation was saved by the deft thrust of a pocket knife...
...larger sense of human excellence, and to use this excellence in politics. I guess that seems like a contradiction in terms these days, doesn't it? What I wish for is a society in which a person like Nixon could be outlawed--no, that's not the word...well, thrust aside, because of all that he lacks. One of the most disappointing things about the electorate is that it's blind to excellence. All I see is self-interest. The greatest evil, the cause of this situation, is the enormous American affluence, and the devotion of people to preserving...
...scientists like the about or like "the necessary stimulus to activate the traditional process, by which the Vietnamese mediate dispute among themselves?" Does he think that the nations ought to call a tribal council? His inability to place the negotiations in a social and historical context--the imperialistic, thrust of American foreign policy over the past century or two--leads to a bizarre obsession with the trivia of press releases and statements of propaganda, as if the substance of the dispute were no more than etymological confusion...
...lengths to which Space Photographer Cernan went to achieve his goal are particularly apparent in one shot. To crowd his fellow moon walker Jack Schmitt, the U.S. flag and the distant earth into one small frame, Cernan had to drop to his knees in his stiff space suit and thrust himself backward so that the chest-mounted camera could be properly aimed. To obtain a view of Schmitt and a giant boulder, Cernan insisted on scrambling up an incline. He also aimed and re-aimed until he was finally able to squeeze into one frame the lunar rover, Schmitt...
...DISTASTE for the Isaacsons, increases as the effects of their children's upbringing becomes apparent. The older child, Daniel, is thrust against his parents perversities. Paul and Rochelle parade in the nude to show their children the natural beauty of the body, or drag them to a concert where reactionary demonstrators break Paul`s arm. When his parents die, Daniel assumes responsibility for his sister all too readily, as if he has been a parent-in-training all his life, Little Susan can think of her real parents only as gods, and all American institutions as similar to the jails...