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...truly professional management at the top level. Indira realizes, however, that any serious tampering with property rights could antagonize the moderates and the moneymen who are the source of her party's strength, despite its socialist platform. Mrs. Gandhi is also aware that she must find ways to spur public and private investing...
After the fight, Hunstmen admitted it was the first time he had ever had any gloves on and that the whole thing was a spur-of-the-moment idea. "When I got knocked down, everything went out," he said...
Even when drunk one day last summer he entered an AAU meet two-mile on the spur of the moment to see what he could do. Powlison, running barefoot on a cinder track in 90-degree heat, led for a mile before dropping...
Some of Brustein's arguments against the Living Theatre, for instance, are valid. A theatre which rejects the traditions of the dramatic art in favor of a nebulous, ephemeral attempt to draw its audience into spur-of-the-moment participation is not creating art; whatever sort of internalized art the participants may think they feel, they have not, and can not, transfer it beyond themselves into any permanent form, and permanence is the soul of art. Yet the belittling manner in which Brustein talks about the Living Theatre and its directors, and for that matter about the Yale faculty...
...sign is that few if any Americans defend the system as it is. From the President to the lowliest felon, the nation wants a humane system that truly curbs crime. This is the year of the prisons, the year when Congress may double federal spending (to $300 million) to spur local reform, the year when something may finally get clone and Americans may well heed Dostoevsky's goading words...