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Arriving at RJR's Manhattan offices about 1:15 a.m., Roberts flinched at the sight of Cohen puffing away on his ever present cigar and asked sarcastically if RJR, which sells some 290 billion cigarettes a year, also made cigars. Roberts, who moved to a seat across the room, seriously misjudged his audience. The last thing the embattled RJR team wanted to hear at that hour was another antismoking crack, especially from a would-be ally...
...nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law. Branch Rickey and Miller Huggins were good baseball men and members of the bar, but the A's skipper has had trouble finding comfortable acceptance among his tobacco-splattered peers. In his THE BALLET SCHOOL T shirt, under his NO CIGAR SMOKING PLEASE sign, La Russa sometimes yearns to be a little more like Lasorda, who sometimes yearns to be a little less like Lou Costello. One playing chess and the other checkers: it could be a surprising match...
Although they may not agree on exactly what CLS is, Crits like Harvard Professor of Law Duncan Kennedy--who casually smokes a cigar outside of the conference--say they've put the establishment up against the wall...
...belated recognition of Eliot's intimate presence within his poetry has spurred some controversy. Two of his early poems, Gerontion and Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar, contain traces of anti-Semitism. Last month in London, an outcry by several prominent people questioned why Jews should be expected to cooperate in the commemorative raising of funds for the London Library, one of Eliot's favorite projects during his later years...
...poignant portrait of a man torn between increasingly rigid doctrine and what he saw with his senses: "We greet the patient in a friendly manner, make sure the transference will take, and while the patient lies there in misery, we sit comfortably in our armchair, quietly smoking a cigar." Ferenczi realized that worse things than indifference could grow out of this situation: "Analysis is an easy opportunity to carry out unconscious, purely selfish, unscrupulous, immoral, even criminal acts and a chance to act out such behavior guiltlessly...