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...delight, both the party's moderates and its right-wingers. But the struggle to find the right mix - and men who could accept the jobs - was the first patch of trouble that the Californian has encountered since his surge to win the election. Ronald Reagan got a whiff last week of what life in Washington will be like...
...Agrarians were to farming what pastoral poetry is to real sheep, and Agrarianism was simply the flag under which they marched against the forces of modernity. In 1930, as they sniffed the first whiff of smog at their writing desks in a university founded on the wealth of a New York railroad baron, the essayists of I'll Take My Stand shared, as Warren put it, a "dire suspicion" "that a great commonwealth has gone wrong." The enemy was industrialism, which they characterized as "an evil dispensation" and "a pizen snake." The issue was an intensely personal matter, almost...
Capote has a stomach for blood. One whiff of murderous intrigue and he heads for the scene of the crime. He meets up with a state investigator named Jake Pepper in town somewhere in "a small, western state" where the murderer has already claimed seven victims...
...behind the Boxtops. The Cramps returned to Memphis, Tenn.--where they recorded their Gravest Hits E.P. in 1977--to grovel in their roots. The whole affair is a uniquely American celebration. The Cramps remind us once and for all where and how it all began. Not even the merest whiff of British influence finds its way onto this album. Good riddance. Maybe once the Cramps get through destroying rock's conventions from the ground up we'll really have something to howl about...
...every game since coming north, the Crimson pitching staff came through with a fine performance. This time, Billy Doyie combined his excellent curveball with fine control to hold the Huskies to six hits over eight and two-thirds innings, and Rob Alevizos came on to whiff Husky Bob Murray for the final...