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...different vein, an adult quadriplegic writes about "Solving Hopeless Problems" (he types by striking the keys with a stick held in his mouth), and explains his philosophy: "One adjusts to realities. I try to forge ahead, aware that life may never be full but determined never to accept less than I must." With a similar emphasis on facing facts, an article titled "How Different Is My Child?" counsels against overprotection-which can deprive a youngster of the experiences he needs to become emotionally independent-and against overexpectation, which can make a child feel that "he cannot do anything...
Until the three major networks cease their chorus-line kick approach to the news, a rich vein of public skepticism will be available for Agnew to exploit...
...strategy. These factual observations in the article were not and could not have been prescriptive; they were simple, straight-forward descriptions of what had happened and was happening in South Vietnam as I observed it; my prescriptive "policy recommendations" were entirely different. In a similar factual vein, my article also described the extent to which no significant changes had taken place or were taking place in the relative distribution of political control in the countryside among the Viet Cong, the government, and the communal groups...
...constituents, the Georgian voted yes for the SST. Republican John Thomas Myers of Indiana was an easy switch. "He wants to go to the air show in Paris," a party leader said, meaning that the House leadership could prevent Myers from making the junket. Arends worked a different vein. "Nixon wants this," he repeated to his colleagues. "It's a grand thing to do in the long run." Later he confessed: "Sure, we squeezed-the best...
...there is a deep sardonicism in his personality, a self-deprecating sense of humor which he would sometimes use to disarm his colleagues and at other times to make straightforward remarks which he would never have dared utter in a serious vein. "My problem," he once said to a Faculty coleague with a trace of a grin, "is that I was born arrogant"; the remark of a man who either thought himself above reproach or was perhaps entirely too blind about the roots of his own scornfulness...