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Since 1956 he has written 20 novels, four books of criticism, a Shakespeare biography, a study of linguistics, dozens of critical articles and scores of bread-and-butter reviews...
...turkeys are the riders that you see everyday. They are the students who want to get down from the 'Cliffe in less than fifteen minutes, the Cambridge kids on their Banana Bikes--the bread and butter of bicycling in the area. Before you laugh at them, realize that bicycles really are the fastest transportation in the city. Cyclists have been known to pass police cars, even when the police have the aid of their siren...
...founders of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital Diet Clinic, most popular diets are only temporarily effective in changing one's pattern of eating. The menu may turn out to be less important than how and where one eats. Outpatients at the Jordan-Levitz diet clinic can have peanut butter sandwiches or lemon meringue pie if they like, but for 20 weeks they must keep a food-intake chart, a sort of eater's digest of the circumstances of each meal or snack...
...hundred pounds of beef, 400 lbs. of fish, some 100,000 lbs. of real-life Newport socialites hung with $1 million worth of Cartier carats, and a mound of butter carved into the shape of a lamb by an 80-year-old nun? A Scarlett O'Hara-style search for a movie heroine and screen tests for 75 antique automobiles? Five 40-ft. glass and steel panels removed from a New York showroom in order to put a $100,000 Rolls-Royce on display? Great Scott...
...eminence and influence. Clearly, too, as he dictated almost daily entries in this personal journal, he considered them footnotes to history, not merely private ruminations. And in a way they are. Pearson confided no major revelations to the diaries; scoops, after all, were his daily bread and butter, and he appears to have expended them all as he found them. But the diaries do reflect in a detail that could not appear in his column the man's exhaustive knowledge of what went on in Washington: Joe McCarthy's bruited homosexuality and alcoholism; the acceptance of gifts...