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...apologized to Urtain for landing a punch, that after he had been counted out he bounced back to his feet. What did matter to the sellout crowd of 13,000 at Madrid's Sports Palace was that Spain had its first European heavyweight champion in 37 years???and at last Spanish sport had a Numero Uno to lead the nation out of the doldrums of bad bulls and mediocre matadors...
...years???certainly since the New Deal?has been part of the country's basic leftward trend, and still is. The Middle is located much farther toward the left today than it was a decade...
Although the Apollo 11 astronauts planted an American flag on the moon, their feat was far more than a national triumph.* It was a stunning scientific and intellectual accomplishment for a creature who, in the space of a few million years???an instant in evolutionary chronology?emerged from primeval forests to hurl himself at the stars. Its eventual effect on human civilization is a matter of conjecture. But it was in any event a shining reaffirmation of the optimistic premise that whatever man imagines he can bring to pass...
...should have no difficulty winning Senate confirmation. He is not subject to the charge of cronyism, and Nixon is at the beginning rather than the end of his presidency. While Burger has known Nixon for 21 years, he has seen the President only three times in the past 13 years???the third time only three minutes before they walked into the East Room last week. While he is generally of the conservative school, he is moderate enough, particularly on racial issues, not to offend most liberals too greatly. Finally, as Nixon pointedly noted?his mind obviously on the financial dealings...
Distaste for the rational, plodding, message-ridden, rhetorical problem novel?which Nabokov has condemned for years???is now widespread. But the objection to the traditional novel is essentially negative, rising as it often does from despair about the possibilities of rational, orderly, middle-class society. Black comedies, happenings, novels without plots are on the whole grim experiments, and the laughter they offer is at best a kind of comic rictus...