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...retrospect, the McCarthy campaign was the single most effective anti-war effort in the last ten years. It caused the downfall of the most powerful President since Franklin Roosevelt. It brought home to politicians everywhere the realization that the anti-war movement is not just a whim of left wing intellectuals, but is a current which runs strong in the American public, a current which can be translated into votes: the only language most politicians understand...
...whim, Kley then wrote to the Soviet embassy in Washington, which put him in touch with the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Certainly, said the Russians. They offered a good clear satellite shot not just of Maine but of the entire coast from Long Island to Newfoundland. The Soviets' candid space cameras are obviously positioned to snap perfect views of the parts of the world that interest them most. If Kley had asked the U.S. agencies for an aerial picture of Uzbekistan, they probably could have obliged...
Theatrics of Neatness. Who else has a switch on his terrace that, at the flick of a whim, causes a fountain to spurt 120 feet into the air from the center of a private lake? Johnson's house is a monument to the theatrics of neatness: only a bachelor could sustain such stark elegance at this pitch of obsession-one three-year-old child could reduce it all to chaos in ten minutes. It is perhaps the expression of a dilettante-in the classic sense of the word, a lover of the fine arts. It does need money...
...attended the trial as a spectator and I grew used to the routine of waiting, lining up at noon to get into the 2 o'clock session of the court. I grew used to the way the courthouse guards made waiting more difficult by prohibiting various activities seemingly at whim. Most days eating in line was not allowed, but drinking was. Stepping over the roped area was not allowed. Sitting within that area was allowed; sitting outside it was not. If you left your place in line for any reason, to go to the bathroom, to eat, the guards told...
...that hateful dictator and the bleating industry which he leads around by the nose all lose their fur-lined shirts on this graceless, hideous, frumpish monstrosity! I, for one, refuse to start looking like my own grandmother at the whim of this tyrannical male chauvinist...