Word: richard
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...Richard Nixon's way is the via media. On almost every issue he has confronted since he took office, the President has steered a middle course - or zigzagged from right to left in an effort to maintain a national equilibrium. Thus in his welfare package, Nixon made a gesture to the left by advocating a minimum annual income and to the right by keeping that subsidy at $1,600 for a family of four, far below the poverty line, and insisting that recipients accept "suitable" employment or vocational training. He suggested tax reforms, but would prefer to maintain...
...three months. Said he: "There are those who want instant integration and those who want segregation forever. I believe we need to have a middle course. . . But what is the midpoint between Now and Forever? In mathematical terms, it is an absurd conception-dividing infinity in half yields infinity. Richard Nixon might consider Zeno's paradox: In perpetually moving half the distance between one's present position and an ultimate goal, one is condemned to never reach that goal...
...cities are governable, given enough cash and imagination. It is a bad time for such men because many whites feel that there have been too many concessions to blacks already?concessions that whites must pay for. The American middle feels it is a victim of excessively rapid change. Richard Nixon saw that last year. City politicians are not missing the point either...
...made out of the soft earth," said Richard Nixon, "and woman was made of a hard rib." The President was quoting a Jewish proverb to describe the tough-minded, 71-year-old grandmother who stood beside him: Israeli Premier Golda Meir, who had just met Nixon for the first time. Golda Meir's visit to Washington last week was one of her most important missions since she took office six months ago. The Israelis have been apprehensive about Nixon's announced "evenhanded policy" toward the Middle East. They are acutely aware that he owes very little to Jewish...
Grappling with Goethe. What they saw was a flawed masterpiece. Composers from Berlioz to Richard Adler and Jerry Ross have grappled with the Faust legend-the extent of their genius measurable by the magnitude of their failure. Boito, at least, approaches Goethe as an equal, his Prologue and Epilogue conjuring up infinities of space, time and the magnitude of Heaven...