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...said again when he appeared before his followers to accept and savor his victory. Now he could forget the defeats, both the hairbreadth miss of 1960 and the humiliating rebuff of 1962. Now he could put behind him the fear that maybe he was, after all, a born loser. Now he could relish the fruits of unremitting labor for his party, of countless fund-raising dinners and victory banquets and formula speeches in remote towns. Now he could demonstrate to the nation-and perhaps to himself- just what his "great philosophy" is. Now, at last, he had achieved a goal...
...permit therapeutic abortions to be performed if the physical or mental health of the mother is in danger or if the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Four of these five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case if the mother has had German measles (rubella) within the first three months of pregnancy. California did not sanction this ground because Governor Ronald Reagan threatened to veto any bill that included...
...pickers in Kent; nit pickers in the academic world of Oxbridge; the habits of male prostitutes in Trafalgar Square and intellectual prostitutes in the BBC's Portland Place. Down and Way Out. By all the laws of bloodlines and training, George Orwell should have been a Blimp. Born Eric Blair, into a military-official family, he went on scholarship to a spartan prep school designed to groom likely lads for their destined place in the Establishment. Like any dutiful upper-class English boy, he journeyed East to govern the lesser breeds as an officer in the Burmese police...
Gothic Tastes. O'Neill the sometime melodramatist could not have improved upon his own beginnings. He was born on a grey, showery day in October 1888 in the Barrett House, a family hotel fittingly located on Broadway. (During his last illness in Boston 65 years later, he was to raise himself from a stupor and cry: "Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!") His father, James O'Neill, a famous romantic actor of the day. was giving something like his 1,400th performance in Monte Cristo, the play which for over a quarter...
...Neill after Eugene's birth, and so "in all probability was guiltless" of his wife's addiction. Sheaffer concludes that Eugene's standing quarrel was really with his mother, because it was toward her that he felt his truly unatonable guilt: "Had he never been born, the wife and mother would have escaped her 'curse,' they all would have escaped what that 'curse' had done to their lives." Sheaffer fails to develop this suggestion beyond referring the reader as usual to Long Day's Journey and pointing out that those two woman...