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However, we must congratulate Mr. Savit, who incidentally was seen cavorting with a recently deceased and rapidly decomposing barnyard critter (the mainstay of our milk industry), for his precise spelling and immaginative use of punctuation; and metaphor.
Among the well-wishers in attendance was James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, who sat in the next-to-last row during Moynihan's lecture--in which he was mentioned several times. Wilson said he came to Moynihan's lecture because he "wanted to congratulate" Moynihan. "I thought I...
Triple Crown. Lipscomb, 56. learned of his award when his students burst into his cluttered office to congratulate him. He was inspired to do the work that led to his Nobel, he recalls, when as a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, he heard his professor, Linus Pauling...
Overly exagerrated attempts to link Celine with more prestigious French writers are the book's principal shortcoming. McCarthy loses some of his critical flare and originality in the process. For instance, he illustrates Celine's disillusionment with sex with this lament from the protagonist of Journey: "Pleasure pretty soon becomes...
Some of the bitterest attacks came from Saint Laurent's compatriots, who have a fairly good history of deploring innovation in the arts. "I'm a friend of Yves," expostulated Le Figaro's fashion editor Viviane Ch. Greymour. "But I didn't congratulate him on this...