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...himself wheeled into the Oval Office to get his New Deal under way. In the vacated presidential desk he could find neither a pencil nor a pad of paper. He could find no buzzer with which to summon an aide. He paused for an echoing moment in this vacuum of power, then threw back his head and shouted until a secretary came running...
...baffling the grader or fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we first note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...interview in Popular Mechanics, David Stockman compares Reaganomics to the vacuum tube. "It doesn't make sense anymore, and its guaranteed to break down a lot," he says. A day after its publication, Stockman explains he had really meant to say, "I have absolute faith in the president. He is the best president I have ever...
...What happens if a vacuum is created (be it in air or on a market place)? Might it not tend to fill up with new products where others were pulled off the market? This is happening today in some developing countries, e.g., Sudan, where Japanese companies are having a field day in markets vacated by Nestle and the American formula companies. Incidentally, according to local information from throughout the developing world Nestle as well as the large U.S. formula companies have ceased all promotion, their infant products in many countires are no longer available in grocery stores, Nestle...
...Trapped, a bright, attractive housewife dramatizing wildly to retain her sanity while being battered senseless by the weapons of Domesticity. Addressing the audience as one would the wall in a world gone ga-ga, the wife. Babs, bobs and jiggles like an adorable, black-eyed marionette. Objects like vacuum cleaners, blenders and detergents take on a sinister life of their own: the dog, her one friend, weighs about 250 pounds, goes shopping and watches television. The play is liberating because it magnifies everyday neuroses into a giddy surrealism that comes far closer to capturing the reality of an advertising-swamped...