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...inside flap of Doris Kearns's recently released book on Lyndon Johnson, a short blurb lists her academic qualifications. She graduated from Colby College in 1964, served as a White House fellow in 1967 and received a Ph.D from Harvard in 1968. The paragraph concludes, "She is now a professor in Government at Harvard University." The last part is a little vague--and with good reason...
...book is not, as the blurb boasts, "one of the most revealing, informative, and insightful books yet written about contemporary Soviet society..." It focuses squarely on the experiences of an American family, and only examines Soviet society insofar as it is perceived through their eyes...
...stated in her biographical blurb that she hoped to enter politics once a friendly administration is in the White House. When and if she does leave, the Government Department will lose one of its brightest stars and one of its finest courses. But no one thought that Kearns would ever be forced to leave. Hopefully, the Government Department when it votes this month will vote to give its "brightest star" the tenure she deserves
Being a Boston Red Sox fan a thousand miles from the Hub is not all that easy. It consists of trying to glean the game story out of a box score, since the typical game blurb was only a sentence or two long. It also means staying up to get the ball scores if the Sox were out West. Otherwise you'd be kept in suspense until two days later when the story would finally make the morning editions...
Jerry Williams vs. Avl Nelson. "The first" says the WCVB blurb, "in a series of exciting debates between Boston's most outstanding talkmasters." (Williams is a burly, middle-aged, old-school liberal; Nelson is a young, super ambitious libertarian.) But this will probably dissolve into a classic more-heat-than-light confrontation, especially considering the not very narrow topic of tonight's debate: "Does the 'System' work?" Ch. 5, 11 p.m. 1 hour...