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...powerful as ever. The President rattled off proposals to reorganize existing programs, extend Social Security, reduce pollution control firearms, halt invasions of privacy, modernize the draft and fight crime. But Johnson left the two great domestic issues before the Congress--civil rights and the War on Poverty--disturbingly grey, despite brave talk of continuing progress. Negro leaders in particular must have bristled at hearing fair housing plugged into the address directly following "regional airsheds...
Indeed, Viet Nam has given the young - protesters and participants alike - the opportunity to disprove the doom criers of the 1950s who warned that the next generation would turn out spineless and grey-flannel-souled. Henry David Thoreau would have felt at home with the young of the 60's, they are as appalled as he was at the thought of leading "lives of quiet desperation." In deed, for the future, the generation now in command can take solace from its offspring's determination to do better...
From William Rothenstein, who did his portrait, Nicolson learned that Oscar Wilde "had a red face, grey lips and very bad teeth. He was so ashamed of his teeth that he used to put his hand over them when he spoke, giving an odd, furtive expression to his face...
Gilmour's attorney pulled out all the stops. Noting that the trial had been "followed with concern by a modest grey-haired man" - his client's father - Lawyer Semyon Khayfits cited Gilmour's "good reputation at the University of Utah." "In the faraway town of Salt Lake City," he intoned, "Craddock Gilmour's return is anxiously awaited by his mother...
Under those grim stone turrets at West Point, buttoned-up, close-cropped cadets still "hup, two, three, four" in precision parades. Unchanged in 30 years are the slate-grey cadet uniforms, and it is still forbidden for a cadet to hold a girl's hand when he walks her on campus. But beneath the surface sameness, the Point within the past five years has undergone a drastic, evolutionary change to match the new ways of what its teachers like to call "the profession of arms." Harsh hazing and pointless indignities have given way to a more mature approach...