Word: afterthought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remains a great mentor for the world in the leadership business." Additional insights came from President Harry Truman, by way of Rosalynn Carter, whom Sidey interviewed for the story. "She had been reading his memoirs and had come up with a favorite quotation: 'Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesman.' I think she was trying to tell me something, but with a smile...
...music of Elvis Costello is an extraordinarily detailed delineation of the twists and turns of a single tortured, adolescent mind. It's not us, but it's not that far removed; you may feel it next time you masturbate. In "High Fidelity," Elvis gives us, for once, a moral afterthought, a vicious vision of silliness; two people cheating on each other, bugged by each other, hating each other, communicating foggily through the airwaves...