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...think you meant it this way, but is there a better way to compliment the Supreme Court [July 16] for objectivity on a case-by-case basis than labeling it "neither liberal nor conservative," "distinctly nonideological" and "unpredictable"? In short, what's wrong with being "a court with no identity...
...Club where he sits with other show business gentry. Groucho Marx and Al Jolson used to be regulars. Says Burns: "There was a time when not much sturgeon could be brought into California. But Jolson always had some in the kitchen anyway. So when he sat down, I would compliment him on what a great man he was and how the world was waiting for his comeback 'Have a little sturgeon,' he'd say. So I had a little sturgeon. Then Jolson did the sound track for The Jolson Story, and I told him that...
Last week, quite unintentionally, NASA returned the compliment...
...choose one politician to sit at the Pearly Gates and pass judgment on my soul, Jimmy Carter would be the one," wrote former Presidental Speechwriter James Fallows. Having paid that compliment to the humanity and understanding of his onetime employer, he proceeded to render so harsh a judgment on Carter and his presidency that Fallows' wrathful ex-colleagues at the White House must wish that he had indeed reached the Pearly Gates...
...Joan Didion phrase, in groups I am usually "neurotically inarticulate." The compliment was undeserved and I was embarassed at what I sensed was a condescending attitude. Any suspicions I might have had were swiftly confirmed a few minutes later. Picking up again her main themes of the constricting conditions of class, sex and race and their effect on writers, she apparently thought she was losing people's attention. Weary of the vertiginous heights of the merely abstract, she decided to provide everyone with a small object lesson: she inclined her head towards me and said pointedly in voice too loud...