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What means this blather, Governor? What are we to make of it? Surely no one opposes children, churches, average Americans, and life--but does merely invoking such vivid images prove that the Constitution is a creature of the states, the point the learned speaker was attempting to make...
...Nicklaus is the slowest player I've ever seen," Sarazen, a two-time Open champ (1922, 1932), told a group of scholarship-winning caddies in Boston. "Slow play becomes a disease. My most vivid memories of slow players are that they vanish quickly from the scene." Sarazen said that he and an 80-year-old partner can still go 18 holes in 2½ hours; Nicklaus has been known to take a good deal longer...
Midcult, Macdonald believes, is spreading like a "tepid ooze" through American culture. It showed up in the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, in which the vivid language of the King James version was pruned away to make easier reading-a feat comparable to "taking apart Westminster Abbey to make Disneyland out of the fragments." Similarly, the Third Edition of Webster's International Dictionary discarded the label "erroneous" for misuse of a word, sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter...
...famous performers (Alec Guinness. Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy) and one comparatively obscure young man (Peter OToole) who will soon be as famous as anybody in show business. And though Lawrence falls far short of Kwai in dramatic impact, it nevertheless presents a vivid and intelligent spectacle...
...Japanese competitors. In September, at the President's urging, Congress approved a 7% income tax credit for corporations investing in new equipment. Then, in the most important economic legislation of the year, Congress passed the Trade Expansion Act, giving the President wide powers to bargain down tariffs. In vivid testimony to their rejection of economic isolationism, U.S. businessmen generally applauded the Trade Act. Said Chairman Carl Gilbert of Gillette: "The Trade Expansion Act has done much to heal the break between the President and business...