Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem to be much more than a military adviser. With your Princeton Ph.D. and negotiating experience, you're the classic "diplomat-warrior...
...infinitely more prudent alternative appeared to be the 1989 New Yorker Diary. The ad promises that its "50 all-time classic" cartoons will "start each day with a smile." But such an enforced daily dose of risibility struck me as being a little like wearing a lampshade at a party while completely sober. Esquire is another competitor in this smile-button sweepstakes. Its diary boasts cartoons and ads drawn from the magazine's issues of 1939. Not, however, exactly the world's most fun year. Somehow the memory of Nazi troops pouring into Poland might mar my enjoyment of next...
...WONDERFUL LIFE (almost everywhere). Imagine what Christmas would be like if Frank Capra's film classic had never been born...
...classic instance of personnel shaping policy was President Richard ^ Nixon's embrace, in his first term, of the Family Assistance Plan, a form of guaranteed income for poor families. FAP was largely a Democratic proposal. The first draft was submitted by two Democratic holdovers in the upper bureaucracy who were so skeptical of getting a hearing that they referred to it as the Christian Working Man's Anti-Communist National Defense Rivers and Harbors Act of 1969. But their handiwork caught the eye of another Democrat, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had come into the Nixon White House as a presidential...
Think again. Christmas in Maine also means the Augusta Women's Basketball Classic. Harvard, Maine, Georgia Tech and Howard will face off this weekend in the holiday season's newest addition to the tournament circuit...