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What constitutes the Princeton definition of "wonk" at Bickertime? The traits of a varied species can be most clearly grasped when combined into an extreme, idealized archetype, whose full obnoxious character each empirical individual but partially manifests and only for a brief time. To apprehend the Platonic essence, then, of the utter antithesis to the approved club type, imagine an inarticulate, introverted, morbidly shy sophomore from a small town in the provinces. He wears outlandish ties, dirty sweaters, and baggy pants. Not only lacking a crew cut, he is in bad need of a barber nearly all the time...
...Department of Justice, where government lawyers must decide how to track down and apprehend the approximately 40,000 men who did not sign up last summer, plus however many have not complied since then, spokesmen point to the White House and plead ignorance. "We have to wait for more information on how the president feels on the matter," one Justice Department spokesman said...
Clearly, the best of these writers and illustrators apprehend the power of Ingmar Bergman's insight: "All of us collect fortunes when we are children -a fortune of colors, of lights and darkness, of movements, of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown...
Legitimate marketers hope for some relief from an international anticounter-feiting code that may be ratified in 1981. It calls for greater cooperation to apprehend copiers, as well as stiffer penalties for them. The aim is to make counterfeiting an important trade issue so that, as Alain Thrierr of the French Manufacturers Union says, "government authorities will have to answer...
...scheme has a certain charm. He writes his memoirs, mailing them back o headquarters-and to the Soviets, the Chinese and anyone else who might be professionally interested. The agency falls all over itself trying to apprehend him before the final revelations can undo its secret activities completely. But aided by a once and present lover (Glenda Jackson), Matthau leads a mostly merry chase through much of the free world, keeping one jump ahead of his CIA pursuers until a happy, tricky ending is achieved...