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...knows, he said, that he should not have granted the interview. Then he vowed that his campaign would not get personal in its final days, but predicted that Ford's would. Ford admitted that he, like "most others in the political arena," had been guilty of using "rather graphic language" in the campaign...
...corn-and hayfields near Loveland, eight miles beyond the canyon's mouth. One body was carried 25 miles to Greeley. At week's end the death total was nearing 100. But, incredibly, more than 800 people were still missing six days after the flood-the most graphic illustration of the power of the water that had cascaded down from the mountains...
People of the squeamish persuasion are a beleaguered lot these days. Their views are anything but chic, and their sensibilities are battered about like straw men each time a new entertainment hurls ever more graphic violence ("Not for the squeamish!") at the public eye and viscera. Perhaps squeamishness lacks defenders because sneering at it is both fashionable and surefire box office...
...protest against the U.S. involvement in Indochina, the flag was being burned, burlesqued and spat upon. Today many of the selfsame Americans who chose then to disown their flag are hoisting it high. In a republic, the flag-not a royal family or the trophies of empire-represents in graphic form the experiences and beliefs of its people. As Woodrow Wilson said on America's entry into World War I, "This flag, which we honor and under which we serve, is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other...
...automatically to the whims of its director. There are lengthy discussions about Hoover's fanatical desire to destroy the New Left, and his seeming inability to recognize the civil rights of virtually anyone in any group to the left of the John Birch Society. Ungar is at his most graphic when he details Hoover's determination to stamp out left-wing opposition over his half-century tenure...