Word: aarons
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...odyssey that has led him from socialism to libertarianism to iconoclastic conservatism. Along the way he has demonstrated a willingness to mobilize overstatement to back up tentative thoughts that defy the prevailing wisdom. "Departing from conventional views of the time is the only way to evidence intellectual interest," says Aaron Director, a longtime University of Chicago free-market economist and an early Bork mentor. "He's always believed in advancing ideas forcefully and having them tested and criticized...
...applause of Rachmaninoff and Stokowski, all before his 30th birthday. He was planning further classical compositions when he died of a brain tumor at the age of 38 in 1937. Would Gershwin's later music have made its way into the standard American repertory along with the works of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber? Or would he have been considered an overreacher whose notes never quite shook off the reverberations of Tin Pan Alley...
...steel company purchasing agent and a schoolteacher mother, Bork originally intended to follow in Ernest Hemingway's footsteps by working for newspapers and then writing fiction. A poet-professor at the University of Chicago steered him to the law. At Chicago's law school, free-market economists like Aaron Director inspired his transition from liberal to conservative...
...attraction expended, Frank Robinson has finished leading three black managers into futile circumstances and has taken his place of oblivion as an Oriole coach. Joe Morgan has declined a managing job in -- of all cities -- Houston. Looking at every major-league front office and seeing only Atlanta's Henry Aaron, Morgan figured out the chances of advancement and took his talents and flair to another industry...
...American history began on a modest scale with Washington, D.C. (1967), a novel set in the middle of this century that mixed real and fictional people in a struggle for the nation's soul. Then came Burr (1973), a witty revisionist look at the Founding Fathers, as recorded by Aaron Burr's amanuensis and illegitimate son Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler. In 1876 (1976), an older Schuyler returned home after years of self-imposed exile to witness both the theft of a presidential election and his daughter's cynical campaign to land a rich American husband. Lincoln (1984) was a lumbering...