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...primary message is a blend of sophisticated logic about the limits of U.S. resources and rather simplistic answers to the resulting problems. "We've got some rough days ahead of us," says Connally. "We don't have all the oil we need, we don't have all the energy we need. We've got to rely on Chile and Zambia and Saudi Arabia and Canada, and they're going to set the price." How to cope? "We're going to have to be more thrifty in our use of things. Let's just...
Founded in 1895 by Social Reformers Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the L.S.E. has been noted for a unique blend of scholarship and social activism that has attracted an international array of agile minds, both to teach and be taught...
Well, for one thing, the Me-Books so far prepared (by writers and artists who have wisely remained anonymous) are unattractive and vapid, a sad blend of box-top realism and the kind of plastic fantasy that Ronald McDonald might use to flog hamburgers. Moreover, unlike the stories that parents make up for their children, weaving in the details of private life, Me-Books are standardized...
...fruit desserts are especially good, and the restaurant's unique blend of coffee is excellent. No liquor is served, but you can bring your own, and the restaurant staff will chill your wine and provide you with glasses...
...briefly, gracefully, shrewdly, with anecdote and flashes of insight, Hughes invites humane and practical reflection upon the most mysterious and important public office in the world. When the reader is through, he not only knows a good deal about the powers and restraints of the presidency and the peculiar blend of qualities necessary for leadership, he thinks of all U.S. Presidents as contemporaries...