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...well, participating, albeit in somewhat contrived fashion. Involvement in the political process rejuvenates the individual and strengthens the country. With a zeal even Tocqueville might have underestimated, the elephants trundled to the Motor City last week to climax long months of participation--or, as one clever delegate with an ear for language said, "participaction...
...strange, burned-out characters whose off-the- wall repartee generated easy laughs. These characters often spoke in grunts, and halfsentences, peppering their dialogue with "yeah, man's" and "yeah, so you know's." Their most famous routines include a dreamy song called 'Basketball Jones"; and a sequence whose ear-shattering punch line is delivered by a nun to her high school class: "SHUT...
...public roles at a time when most serious fiction was burrowing ever deeper down the rabbit hole of self. Critics complained, irrelevantly, that Snow was not Proust and, accurately, that his prose was often pedestrian and awkward. While he never pretended to be an elegant stylist. Snow had an ear for the telling phrase; two of the titles he corned for the "Strangers and Brothers" series, The New Men and Corridors of Power, quickly became common currency...
During the election campaigns, Mrs. Gandhi was repeatedly asked whether she planned to give Sanjay a government post. "No, why should I?" she would answer. Sanjay had no need of office to gain his mother's ear at the breakfast-table sessions with advisers, where many of her key policies were argued out. Presumably, he played a part in her tough decisions to raise prices on petroleum, fertilizer and rail tickets, and to cut taxes as a way of reducing inflation (currently 20% a year) and stimulating growth...
...athletes could compete in the Olympics and a small nation like Iran would win as many medals as the U.S.S.R. Humiliated, the Russians would pull out of Afghanistan believing that all Third World nations were just as strong," I stated, pausing only to shift my body so my ear lobes would turn out just right...