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Dianetics, retooled as the religion of Scientology, has since developed most of the accouterments of other faiths-liturgies, clerical collars, but only the vaguest sort of theology. Unconvinced that it was indeed a religion and noting that Hubbard received 10% of all revenues, the Internal Revenue Service in 1959 got...
Carter has the burnt-out, apolitical refugees of the '60s, Wallace has the frightened, Jackson the blue-collars, and Udall is the professors' choice. Even Harris has the ideologically committed. In primaries, strong interest-group support is key--coalition-building can take place after the nomination.
Surrounding the hero and heroine, however, is a world full of characters more willing than they to bow to the rigid dictates of regency fashion. Elderly female relatives are constantly shocked at the heroine's outspokenness, and make liberal use of handkerchiefs, tears, and smelling salts. Vapid young men simper...
Endangered Species. At Dior and most other houses this year, the fur flew freely. Bohan's coats have collars of red or silver fox; raincoats are lined and hooded in mink and moleskin; his anoraks are lined in seal or fox; sheer jackets are bordered in matching ostrich plumes...
I fiddled with my watch chain, adjusted my Grand Canyon lapels, and forged into a gaggle of tweeds. The sallow faces above the collars were debating the relative merits of the various Supreme Court justices they had clerked for. At the next awkward power is the conversion, one of them...