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...Crisis. Chirac cannot go too far in opposing Giscard without triggering a confrontation that would only weaken the government majority and benefit the left. Moreover, much of the pending legislation in the Assembly was hatched while Chirac was still Premier; this blunts any credible Gaullist opposition to these measures. But the Gaullists will stay arms-length from the President from now on. They may oppose direct elections to a European parliament and object to ratifying the International Monetary Fund accords reached last January in Jamaica, an agreement they view as symptomatic of Giscard's shift to supranationalism. Beyond these...
HALSMAN: My training as a student of engineering was responsible for my emphasis on precise, sharp and clear photographs. My interest in psychology has made me conscious of the fact that photographic technique produced psychological overtones which could either reinforce or weaken and destroy the content which the photographer wanted to convey...
Financial Help. Callaghan did get one sweetener from Ford and Schmidt: they agreed to provide financial help in easing the problem of sterling balances, which weaken the pound's stability. Sterling balances are pound deposits held in British banks by foreigners that can be withdrawn on a moment's notice; they are often dumped on foreign-exchange markets at the first sign of economic trouble. Callaghan, like many other Prime Ministers before him, wants to convert these volatile short-term deposits to long-term debts; precisely how this will be done and what kind of financial help...
Steinbeck's elaborations on Malory are often efforts to rationalize the characters or events. These explanations weaken the style of the book, sap its pace and deprive its people of any life undiagrammed by an omniscient author...
...challenge to authority that is now upon us can strengthen and renew institutions as much as it can weaken them. And it can be fun. There is always room, as George Orwell wrote, 'for one more custard...