Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer lies with the defensive secondary, "The best overall defensive effort I've ever seen," said an ecstatic "Mean George" Newhouse, the Harvard adjuster, walking off the field after the Brown game. "We didn't make any mistakes...
...Defense James Schlesinger, an iconoclastic intellectual who says what he thinks ?often in a prickly way. Was the reason for the firing his strong dissent from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's brand of détente? Or was it that Ford considered him overly acerbic, abrasive, aggressive? The answer, it seemed, was a combination of both, with the personal motive outweighing the policy problem. A President is certainly entitled to fire advisers with whom he cannot work. But a self-assured President should also be tolerant of dissent for the sake of keeping himself open to different points...
...young student, Carey Winfrey, now a TV producer, gushed to Trilling that he had "raised the essay to a level that it had not seen since Charles Lamb." Trilling thanked his young admirer, reflected for a moment, and then offered an answer that seemed a classic example of academic vanity. More likely it was another one of Trilling's wry jokes, and perhaps it was even true. Said he: "I'm not altogether certain that I haven...
...counterpart, Ron Nessen, at a White House press briefing. Nessen first tried to ban microphones and film crews from the session, but Bashir objected. And when Nessen got into a shouting match with a reporter over a question about Saudi Arabian antiSemitism, Bashir interrupted with a polite answer: "We don't indulge in the internal affairs of Saudi Arabia or the United States." Said one White House press corps veteran: "He could teach Nessen a thing...
...opera to see performance; they went to enjoy a ritual called "going to the opera." In the Paris Opera, Gamier enshrined that ritual. "How large should the foyer be?" he enquired in a book, Le Theatre, written four years before the Opera opened in 1875. "To answer this question we must study how people promenade ..." What person, trapped in our landscape of grids, would not feel a secret nostalgia at those considerate words...