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...Greek temper is erratic, the Greek tempo seduces Durrell with its essential timelessness. Sky, sea and air are the only absolutes, and full absolution; Durrell is convinced that the Greeks live "beyond good and evil." The only space that matters to them is the spot they occupy. Asked the distance to a neighboring town, a Corfiote villager would reply with the number of cigarettes smoked in transit. With the reminder that "Poverty is the Tenth Muse" of Greece, Durrell makes the inevitable attempt to define the national character: It "is based on the idea of the impoverished and downtrodden little...
Both were asked about the 27½% oil-depletion allowance, so dear to the hearts of Texas and Oklahoma oilmen. Kennedy was not opposing it and would restudy it after election; Nixon endorsed it wholeheartedly. Kennedy talked lightly about his inability to control Harry Truman's fiery public temper (see Democrats), but Nixon seized the occasion to declare fulsomely that President Eisenhower had restored dignity to the presidency ("I see mothers holding their babies up so that they can see a man who might be President of the United States"), and most newsmen were reminded of the Checkers speech...
...formalities. What lies them? The greeting sent by to the Prime Minister, its reference to "the historical of the complete collapse of the disgraceful system of colonialism," was harshly out of keeping with the general temper of the occasion, but neither for the present nor for the future is it wholly to be dismissed. If of the good will between Africans and Europeans, it is also a key fact that, at least for politically consicous Nigerians, resentment of colonialism and of any hint of racial, social, or political inferiority is the profound emotional driving force behind the demand for equality...
...asked Robert Francis Kennedy, the ubiquitous campaign manager for his brother Jack, couldn't the local Democratic faction get together behind the national campaign? Why weren't the volunteers working harder? What was wrong? Under Kennedy's crossexamination, Bob Conrad's temper suddenly snapped, and he jammed the accelerator in anger. "It's not as simple as that," he rasped. But before he could say much more, a Nebraska highway patrolman flashed him to a stop. Muttering his disgust, Conrad got out of the car to talk to the cop. Bobby Kennedy, his mind still...
...Cool, Boy. Khrushchev's temper seemed to worsen as the week wore on; he had the air of a man looking for a target. The target appeared in the shape of Britain's urbane Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. who flew into New York last week determined, against the advice of his own Foreign Office, to dispense calm and conciliation.* (Just before his departure from London, Macmillan confided to a fellow Tory that his message for Khrushchev was epitomized in a song from West Side Story: "Get cool. boy. Got a rocket in your pocket/ Take it slow...