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...proclaimed Goodell a radic-lib, a category otherwise reserved for liberal Democrats. He compared Goodell's ideological turnabout to a celebrated sex-change operation. Goodell, said Agnew, was the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party," a remark that evoked substantial revulsion and a demand for an apology from Miss Jorgensen?which Agnew refused. Though Agnew's assault won some sympathy for Goodell, it more significantly dried up Republican money sources, who got Agnew's message and have turned to Buckley...
Policing racial hostility is difficult: the U.S. Attorney's staff in charge of the Birmingham area has only two lawyers regularly assigned to keep up with more than 60 school systems. In recent weeks, federal courts have made limited progress. They have outlawed sex segregation in Coffeeville, Miss., and Concordia Parish, La. (the practice continues in several Georgia counties). They have also ruled that merging school systems must continue to employ black principals and teachers instead of demoting or firing them and hiring whites...
Nelson began the practice as soon as he got out of high school in Biloxi, Miss., in 1947. As a reporter for the Biloxi Daily Herald, he probed the city's gambling so effectively that it was finally investigated by Senator Estes Kefauver's peripatetic investigating committee. In 1953, at the Atlanta Constitution, he wrote a devastating exposé of vice and corruption in Hinesville, Ga. Directly or indirectly, his story resulted in so many grand jury indictments (44) of Hinesville's citizens that when Nelson turned up to cover the proceedings, he was mobbed...
Primeval isolation, a selfhood that is a mystery most of all to oneself, an animal sense of mortality-these are the terrors Miss Atwood has to offer. Technology, social sophistication, are transparent pretenses behind which man is naked, with drooling fang and club at the ready. Dealing in the artifices of well-made verse and well-made novel, she convincingly suggests that the overcivilized and the barbarous are one. Yet the Atwood message is beyond formulated pessimism; it has the rhythmic cycling of hope and despair natural to life itself. A lyricism as honest as a blade of grass...
That incident was particularly painful for the Crimson because Donovan missed on his first attempt from 25 yards. But an offside penalty gave Donovan another opportunity and this time he didn't miss...