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...left to her friends and admirers to revel in the idea of a Secretary of State who sorted out the future of Bosnia while cuddling a grandchild on her lap, who knits and cooks and wears red suits and goes antiquing with Barbra Streisand, who keeps a miniature broom in her office sent by a critic who called her a witch for supporting sanctions on Saddam Hussein, who passed out bags of cookies decorated with hearts to members of the Security Council on Valentine's Day. "I like this appointment better than anyone else," says Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan...
...often comes from a kind of humor that is closely related to stand-up comedy. Hall, an experienced reader who turns each poem into an expert performance piece, drew big laughs with poems about Steven's swearing, and about a literary game he played in college, "The Giant Broom." But while these pieces are funny, they are not necessarily poetry; remove the line breaks and you have simply an anecdote. In other words, if T.S. Eliot's poetry was stylistically artificial and thematically impersonal, and Robert Lowell's was artificial but personal, Donald Hall's is personal and plain...
...robber to the New Deal. He is the Scout who goes ahead, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the Janitor who sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket a hard, nasty, grinding job, Ickes gets the assignment." --Sept...
...Five days after Elizabeth's suggestion, nothing had changed. That's becoming a Dole campaign pattern--promises without follow-through. (Dole talked about convening some wise elders two months ago but dropped that ball.) This time, it wasn't clear from the family meeting who would select the new broom or carry out this housecleaning. Nor did Dole and his wife discuss any names. Instead something worse happened: news of the Doles' grumbling spread through Republican circles, setting off a round of maneuvering and speculation about whether Dole, a man who has normally resisted taking advice, could find someone...
Last semester, members of the Undergraduate Council cleaned house. But this time, the broom stayed in the closet...