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Attempting to orient the anti-war movement toward overt support of the NLF would, however, be unwise, and perhaps disastrous. American support of the NLF will have no effect on the course of South Vietnamese politics, yet it could divide the movement in the United States enough to assure the indefinite continuation...
...that "peace is at hand." Nor, in returning a Democratic Congress, did the voters give Nixon any mandate to ignore that body. Cried a frustrated Republican Senator, Ohio's William Saxbe, last week: "Is there any thing other than his own conscience that limits a President from any overt act? There's nobody that can touch him. No Security Council, no Joint Chiefs of Staff, no veto power-nothing...
...than $25, the strip without a doubt still represents one of the ugliest environments that has ever existed. It is easy for Venturi to avoid questions such as why acres of landscape have to be covered with asphalt for parking lots, why the construction of such enormous signs as overt displays of competition for the consumer's money, and why such dependence on the car when parking lots can be made to seem like Versailles and gambling halls like the Vatican. Indeed it is the commercial interests of gas station owners, short-order hamburger corporations, and gambling joints...
...feet, or over his head. Shepard is a sensitive monitor of what might be called the Cross-Over Culture, the place and time where private black lingo, black clothing fashions, black drugs and violence, and black music become part of some whites' lifestyles. This is osmotic rather than overt, something in the mood and tempo of his work, and not in the presence of any black characters in his plays. Nor is it his only concern. Fast cars, mechanical gadgetry, chrome and plastic values festoon his works and form a symbolic veneer under which, he seems to be saying...
...till the End of the Day". Davies discovered his social conscience with "Sunny Afternoon and choosing to dwell on that rather than make his fortune took the hand through "End of the Season" and "Waterloo Sunset" among others. Brilliant songs all but never heard or sold the most overt of the lot was Well Respected Man," and it sowed the seeds reaped in Arthur a full length examination of the middle class and the empire. A typical story-growing up, going to war, dying, and finally emigrating to Australia Opportunities are available in all walks of life in Australia...