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...After his death there from tuberculosis, her mother returned to the U.S. and remarried. (Sontag uses her stepfather's last name.) In time, the new family ended up living in Canoga Park, near Los Angeles, though it would be truer to say that Sontag lived in books. The most ardent reader at North Hollywood High School, alma mater of Alan Ladd and Farley Granger, she graduated at 15 and made for the University of Chicago. (She would later do graduate work at Harvard and Oxford.) At 17 she married sociologist Philip Rieff, then a 28-year-old instructor, just...
...ardent Zionist, I am saddened that I find myself compelled to vote in favor of Question #5 in the Cambridge election next month. I encounter two reservations which, upon careful consideration, are ultimately outweighed by the gravity of the current situation in Israel and the occupied territories...
...Quayle is like a potato," an ardent supporter blared to about 150 students at the lunchtime rally, waving "Quayle for V.I.P." signs to the swelling roll of drums...
After an initially lukewarm endorsement, in which his bumbling mispronunciation of Bush's name fueled rumors that he subconsciously resented the Vice President's candidacy, Reagan has become the most ardent of campaigners. He is convinced, aides say, that the first 100 days of a Dukakis Administration would leave the Reagan legacy in ruins. Said a White House aide: "The President is getting in there and mixing it up; this campaign is sugar for his metabolism...
...from an ardent supporter of the free press to call for obstacles to be thrown in our path. But, frankly, from the perspective of a college student writer, the recent microscrutiny of vice presidential candidate Dan Quayle's achievements in youth was enough to instill trepidation into the heart of any young person...