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Unhappily, its credo includes such items as belief that dishonesty and disregard for ethics are simply a price the nation must pay--indeed, should be pleased to pay--in return for Liberal government. The freedom and the diversity that local responsibility permits counts for nothing, either, when compared to the...
Tough Talk. Then Stevenson turned to the offensive. Ike, he said, "has now adopted the theory of Senator Taft, who unsmilingly states that the greatest threat to liberty today is the cost of our own Federal Government." Later Stevenson described the Taft argument as "the dreary obsession that we must...
"The meeting . . . was memorable." Dali spent most of the session on his knees, he says, "not pleading against expulsion but exhorting [them] to understand that my obsession with Hitler was strictly paranoiac and apolitical."
His Hitler obsession, he adds, lasted until the Führer's death. He happened to be taking his temperature when the news came. For exactly 17 minutes he lay there thinking, thermometer in mouth. When he rose, his temperature was fine; both Hitler and surrealism were dead phases...
The search for the source of the Orinoco River has long been a favorite obsession among explorers of South America's jungles. The jaundiced waters of the third largest river in South America sprawl across the breadth of Venezuela like a gigantic fishhook. The shank fans out into a...