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...year term as secretary of state, he was able to enforce his oft-stated fondness for doling out jobs and commanding loyalty. "I can smell the meat acookin'," Powell said whenever the subject of state jobs was raised. He also had a certain charm, summed up by a boyhood friend: "Paul was just a big old country boy-he could shake you down and make you like...
Ramsay's interest in saintly matters begins during boyhood in a tiny Canadian village when he meets the young wife of a hard-shell Baptist preacher. She is thought to be simple by the townspeople, and proves it to the villagers' angry satisfaction by copulating with a tramp, apparently out of pure charity, and then calmly explaining-when they are caught together-that she did it because "He was very civil. And he wanted it so badly." After that her husband keeps her tied up. She takes little notice of this restraint and continues to exist in untroubled...
...without fuss or rancor. Politics did not interest him, and his life-style scarcely changed. With his tabby cats, his violin, and his watercolors hung out to dry like dish towels on a clothesline in his studio, Klee had always seemed like the Caspar Milquetoast of the avantgarde. From boyhood, he had managed to ignore or bypass every emotional crisis that might have distracted him from his art. He shrugged off the end of one love affair with Teutonic priggishness. "Since only a few weak poems in the popular vein remained of that adventure," the young artist noted...
...lines of his hand, the night lost its multitude of stars. He went deep into his past, which seemed to him bottomless, and managed to draw out of that dizzying descent the lost memory that now shone like a coin under the rain." That memory is of a boyhood encounter, with drawn daggers, at the edge of the sea. "The exact taste of that moment was what he now sought. In this nighttime of his mortal eyes into which he was now descending, love and danger were also in wait for him -because he already divined a rumor of hexameters...
...which he takes over next month, Reasoner will be based in Manhattan, and Smith will continue in Washington. Judging from Reasoner's past form, he will be empathic, bemused and, in the nonpejorative sense of the term, Middle American. His style is a mellow mixture of an Iowa boyhood, a Stanford and University of Minnesota education, newspapering in Minneapolis, the World War II Army, a stint with the U.S.I.A., the demi-sophistication of CBS plus the vicissitudes of fathering seven children...