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...labor unions, there always seem to be a battalion of aides to fetch a car for him, pay a restaurant bill or see that his suit is pressed. Often these outlays are covered by an expense account. Reagan's close friends insist that he would prefer a simpler, even rustic living standard. Yet he has grown to accept the perquisites he receives. Above all, they allow him to concentrate on what he believes is his main task-some say his "mission"-winning the presidency...
...Life was simpler for the Lion of Judah. He did not have to sit in a little storefront near the Greyhound station and tempt young men and women into the military with fantasies of exotic travel and careers in computer maintenance. The Emperor had at least one advantage over the modern American recruiter, of course: a foreign invasion wonderfully concentrates the national mind. Absolute power over Columbia people also gave Selassie a certain edge...
...understanding of the richness of real life. That life goes on, time without end, below and beyond the political illusions that bemuse people with the education and leisure to indulge them. At the abstract level, Levi (and his book's cinematic interpreters) seems to be saying that the simpler the life people lead, the more resistant it is to the forces of change, even when those forces are backed by coercive power. Forty-five years deeper into the 20th century, it would have been easy to romanticize the simple, patient people exemplifying that point. Rosi does...
...other solution is even simpler and even more improbable. If people could understand that most tax money, especially on the local level where there are no ICBM's to build, funds sane and necessary projects, the clamor to cut taxes might stop. That seems unlikely, however, in a society willing to cut out remedial reading programs in order to increase disposable income. After all, what's reading when you can buy a Betamax...
...Brown scrapped the slick-passing offense he had favored at Denver and returned to Wooden's more traditional style. Sophomore Mike Sanders, a comparatively small 6 ft. 6 in., was switched from forward to center to key the attack. Brown also eliminated complicated defenses in favor of a simpler man-to-man coverage. With Bruin basketball stripped to essentials once more, U.C.L.A. was on its way. Says Brown: "Because we were so young and were playing so many people, we had to simplify. I've tried to take the thinking process away and just let them play...