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Safire views Reagan with personal affection and predicts eventual success for the President's economic programs. But with a reasoning that is heretical by conservative standards, he forecasts that prosperity will make Reagan retire rather than run again. Says Safire: "I think he will choose to go out a...
Porter, in explaining his love for the work of the Spanish painter Velazquez, once said that "it isn't that he copies nature--he doesn't impose himself upon it." Indeed, Fairfield Porter never had to interfere in the affairs of the world; he just sat been and took in...
Herschel Baker, Higginson Professor of English Literature and also a student of Bush, called him an illustrious scholar for whom his students felt "an immense affection." "Yet he was an incorrectly modest many" Baker said.
When the Sun and the Star ran the pictures of the royal tummy naked and protruding, the expected protests lit up the switchboards, and the standard apologies were printed. The papers said jointly that they had run the photos out of "deep affection" for Diana. The Sun ran the photos...
Munro's originality is all the more striking because her subject is ordinariness. The stories in this collection and in earlier volumes of fiction (Lives of Girls and Women, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You) are situated in backwaters of Munro's native Canada, places...