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...much as 23% of the population of Boyd and Saline counties). Many remain in small towns where they can live cheaply, with good houses going for as little as $10,000. Others settle in out-of-the-way places that are crimefree and friendly. Most have a simpler reason: to them, these hamlets are home...
...seems initially amorphous, but upon closer examination each musical strand and the pattern into which it is woven appears. In many ways Taylor's style is the antithesis of Ayler's in that Taylor is using the new musical freedom to construct a more sophisticated form, rather than a simpler...
...them is unique, there is no suggestion that they are more unique than anyone else. As in nearly all good political novels, what makes characters interesting and enables them to help shape their lives and the lives of others, is ultimately no special gift or genius but a simpler common humanity stamped by social and personal experiences that people of their class background are likely to share...
...heed the evidence that-short of the notorious suggestion to bomb the country back into the Stone Age-the Viet Nam War could never be "won" in the traditional sense. At fault perhaps was an American inability to accept defeat, or a hypnotic preoccupation with the models of previous, simpler wars. There was no precedent to quote, no guidebook to lead...
Personal Plea. In the recent past the problem was simpler. Editors had few qualms about revealing CIA operations-like domestic spying-that were clearly illegal. But the case of the Soviet sub was different. The CIA was operating in its legitimate sphere-foreign intelligence; and the operation was still going on, Colby had personally pleaded for restraint, and there was in any disclosure a risk of severe damage to U.S.-U.S.S.R. détente. In hindsight, however, some journalists are wondering whether the CIA wanted the story out for its own reasons (see THE NATION...