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...stumping the hotel corridors was clearly just rounding into top form at the age of 80. Trailing cigar smoke and the unmistakable evanescence of power, AFL-CIO President George Meany last week took firm command of the annual assembly of the nation's labor chieftains at the elegant resort town of Bal Harbour, Fla. When he was through, Meany had displayed his consummate mastery of the labor movement and strengthened his position as perhaps the most caustic and telling critic of President Ford's economic policies. Pointing a stubby finger of alarm, Meany warned that unless someone...
...played the down-to-earth Aristotle to Shakespeare's Plato, attacking anyone who deviated from his golden mean. This kind of stance can reduce the energy level of a work of art--how vituperative can you be when you're defending moderation?--but Jonson surmounted this difficulty by resort to strong satirical invective and a life-giving dose of four-letter words...
...pearls and garden-party hats draw parodists' attention more irresistibly than do similar badges of class in male M.P.s. Says one Conservative backbencher: "She's not only a woman. She's the wrong sort of woman. She might be acceptable in the suburbs and seaside resort areas. I cannot see her making much of an impact in the industrial northeast and Scotland. After all, she's a very suburban lady...
Many people do, in fact. At upper Michigan's Indian Head Mountain ski resort, where business is expected to be up 5% over its best previous year, General Manager Paul Karow ruminates: "We sit around and try to figure this out. Either our skiers refuse to believe the economy, or they have a doomsday syndrome: they think that they'll be in the breadlines next year." Meanwhile, on snowy slopes and silver beaches, middle-class Americans are engaging in the pursuit of happiness more passionately than ever...
...Johnson seem to be neoconservatives, impatient with moralists and simple-minded sexual acrobats alike. Group sex and mate swapping are fine for some, they say, but very few can handle them. Extramarital sex is not deplorable, if both partners approve, but it should be used only as a last resort to save a marriage. Exactly under what conditions this would be appropriate is left fuzzy by the authors. The clear argument of the book is that sex should mean commitment, "developing a long-range relationship rather than concentrating it all on short-term pampering of the individual self...