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Despite such stresses, Calley has demonstrated throughout a remarkable restraint, a stiff refusal to lapse into bitterness. He refuses to hate the Army or the country, or even the man trying to take away his life and freedom. At midtrial, Calley said of the Army prosecutor, Captain Aubrey M. Daniel: "He's just doing his job." When Daniel ended the trial with a devastating, impassioned plea for conviction, Calley remarked afterward and with obvious sincerity: "I think he did a great...
...bristling mustache above a bone-stiff upper lip. The wind-up doll gestures. The suave delivery of platitudes in a deep and resonant voice. Those trademarks of Thomas Edmund Dewey came to symbolize a full decade of Republican Party frustration in the presidential politics of the 1940s. That is unfortunate, since Dewey was the prototype of all crusading young gangbusters in his 30s, a crisply efficient three-term Governor of New York in his 40s, and a premature but valued elder statesman of his party as early as his 50s. Nevertheless, he will be remembered chiefly...
Affecting Awkwardness. Considering Mitchell's own background, it was no surprise that the troupe sometimes looked a bit like a beige and sepia training school for the New York City Ballet. A trifle raw and stiff, Mitchell's young dancers nevertheless brought to the stage a springlike vitality and joy very much their own. Their version of Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, a staple of the City Ballet Repertory, did not have the studied, languid ease customarily provided by Balanchine's company, but it did project an affecting awkwardness and feeling entirely appropriate...
...like a destroyer heading full-steam towards the shore," said a close associate of Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath last week. "There's only so much sea room, and it's running out fast." Winter usually brings snarls to otherwise stiff British upper lips, but there is a mood of discontent and even despair in Britain today that is unlikely to disappear, as it normally does, with the first daffodils...
...over Europe, consumers are developing a taste-and paying premium prices-for American food products. Despite stiff trade barriers erected by the Common Market, shipments of American fresh fruit to Europe were worth $32 million in 1970, up almost 40% from 1968. The demand is at its peak right now, when much of the produce grown in California, Florida and Texas is out of season on the Continent...