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...integration fervor. There are ominous signs. But there is no evidence that the Administration has any intention to desert integration as a national goal. The liberal concept that it is best to assimilate minorities mainly through the public schools was in trouble long before Nixon took office...
...mission fails. Lundquist remains at large. Bell stumbles back into Nomad's hands. But no amount of truth serum pumped into him by Nomad can cure him of exposure. Physical hardship, and the bitter fervor and wild-goat odor of the corpus Lundquist, have quickened his sense of human possibilities. He comes to believe that-contrary to the Declaration of Independence-happiness is not a goal to be pursued but something that overtakes a man only when he hits his full stride...
Chekhov's evangelistic fervor for the value of work, since his characters would not have been a tenth as fascinating if one actually saw them working. It is almost axiomatic that in the finest plays no one works. Great drama consists mostly of people fighting, hating, making love (licit and illicit), living in a family, being frightened, being bored, reminiscing about the past, wallowing in self-pity, making jokes, mourning, drinking, talking and dying. Because it contains almost all of these things, the protean stuff of life, The Three Sisters is eternally compelling theater...
Despite its name, Pennsylvania Life Insurance is based in Los Angeles. It concentrates on selling disability income insurance, which its 1,850 salesmen peddle with missionary fervor to self-employed merchants, farmers and smalltown businessmen. The salesmen are not required to be creative, but merely to read a 25-minute presentation prepared by the company. Management's philosophy is that anybody who can read can sell. Success is founded on making plenty of presentations; salesmen make as many as a dozen brief calls for each prospect who is willing to listen to a presentation. But Penn Life has calculated...
...President timed the speech in such a way? The reasoning seemed to be that advance notice would dilute some of the antiwar fervor, put the protesters in an awkward position and buy time. Then the President could deliver a calm, judicious review of his strategy, contrast it with the situation he had inherited and try to win more public understanding...