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What Keisling had composed was an intemperate, insulting attack on Goldwater, his delegates and his followers. It accused Goldwater of treating delegates as "little more than a flock of chickens whose necks will be wrung at will." It charged him with allowing the "radical extremists to use you." It denounced him for "irresponsibility in the serious question of racial holocaust." And it said that Barry's organization had "bought, beaten and compromised enough delegate support to make the result a foregone conclusion...
...blast was aimed at one target, Republican Governor George Dewey Clyde. The Utah Education Association, the N.E.A. affiliate that represents 98% of the state's public-school teachers, thought it had wrung a concession from Clyde last summer when he named a committee to investigate their demands for more money to run the schools. A fortnight ago, the committee recommended spending $6,000,000 on selective wage increases (average salary: $5,900), hiring new teachers, buying more books and equipment. Clyde rejected the report the day it came out. The U.E.A. at once called a strike-causing one father...
Like two scorpions in a bottle, Greek and Turkish Cypriots were still relentlessly tearing at each other. The latest battle began when Greeks fought Turks with bazookas, heavy machine guns, mortars and grenades. By the time British troops wrung a cease-fire from the combatants, 24 had died and more than 60 were wounded in the bloodiest week of fighting on Cyprus this year...
...Englishman is very funny. But by the time Amis lets his ployman homeward plod his weary way, the reader finds his heart wrung with pity. In a puzzling way, the appalling Roger has endeared himself. It is not just that Roger himself in odd moments has recognized that he is a pretty dreadful character. "Very angst-producing, being a snob," he confesses to his mistress. Something deeper is involved. The secret may be that the totally selfish man is pathetic as well as detestable; Roger has some of the heartbreaking quality present in the rapt self-absorption of a child...
Seduction Scene. Monteverdi's original ran five hours, but Dallas Musical Director Nicola Rescigno pared it down to two hours and a half for his production. Where Monteverdi framed his action in tableaux vivants, Director-Choreographer Luciana Novaro, on loan from La Scala, wrung all the action possible from the remaining 15 scenes. The results were most effective in the assassination attempt and in the seduction scene that sealed Seneca's fate...