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...here with primal matters, with a current in the national psyche far deeper and more powerful than our tropism toward corn on the cob and Japanese cars. Ice cream is our drug of choice, and butterfat-the word itself is dizzyingly lovely and globulous-is the occasion of our guiltiest and most delicious sin. Fourteen percent butterfat. Eighteen percent. Four hundred percent butterfat, some dreamer with glazed-over eyes says and actually seems to believe. The great underground truth of our society-a republic in which three-fourths of the males and every female over the age of nine...
...frontiers," he said. "No! Freedom is indivisible and one has to take a moral attitude toward it." He declared that the West's failure to defend the freedom of others has led to the "verge of a collapse created by its own hands." For Solzhenitsyn, the guiltiest parties were clearly Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
...Sigmund Freud of wardrobe psychology, attributes the change directly to Watergate. "I can't think of another factor," he says. "America is losing faith in its leaders." And in its leaders' haberdashery. The more conservative the costume, by his reasoning, the shadier the image. Perhaps the guiltiest of the White House straight men-before the sartorial bar anyway-is Spiro Agnew. "Every hair is in place on that man," complains Molloy. "He always buttons his buttons." Hence the impression is one of strained perfectionism. H.R. ("Bob") Haldeman, with his neatly mowed hair (recently grown and raked...
...Smog," the second story, spreads another sort of gray symbolically over all Italian life. The narrator is the editor of an antismog magazine called Purification, financed by an industrialist who is one of the guiltiest smog makers. Nothing might appear more hopeless than the quandary of an Italian couple in "The Argentine Ant," whose baby is overrun by marching ants, against whom all antidotes fail. But the minor characters of this crawly little fable -like Captain Brauni with his Rube Goldberg ant traps-have a jaunty energy that enables them to survive not only their plague but the plague...
Present Russian bosses, Orlov says, have probably discovered only recently "Stalin's guiltiest secret of all." Orlov claims to have learned of the spying activities from a cousin who was a Soviet army commander. He did not reveal it until now, when anti-Stalin sentiment is rising in Russia, for fear of Soviet revenge upon himself and his family in Russia, Orlov explained...