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Though his Administration has been laggard in providing aid for the veterans, President Nixon showed that at least he appreciates them. Said the Commander in Chief in a drum-thumping speech at the National War College: "Because they saw it through, because they did not quit, we were able to...
"People imagine a waitress couldn't possibly think or have any kind of aspiration other than to serve food. When somebody says to me, 'You're great, how come you're just a waitress?' Just a waitress. I'd say, 'Why, don't you think you deserve to be served...
The children, he found, could be best understood by first speaking with the grandparents. What they believe, the children will soon believe. Parents are the go-betweens, handing down beliefs from the very old to the very young. In sharp contrast to the current American preoccupation with youth, this elderly...
As a result, a scheduled Soviet TV show about Yevtushenko was canceled and he was given an angry summons from the Writers Union. Yevtushenko refused the union's demand that he publicly denounce Solzhenitsyn. Instead, he circulated a letter of protest about the cancellation of his show, in which...
The Abduction from the Seraglio is early Mozart at its best. It's got a whole set of funny, likeable characters, from a sublime but fatuous talking pasha to a ridiculous, ferociously villainous guard who gives up his schemes with a malediction worthy of Malvolio or President Nixon. And it...