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...dead for now and forever in this century," said a joyous Phyllis Schlafly, the amendment's leading foe, at a press conference in Washington. There was no conciliatory gesture to ERA backers, whom she termed "con men" and "vicious people...
...Helen, the situation is deeply unsettling. She is very pretty (unlike the real Helen) and close to John in age. The nearness of a man in the house has been a spring awakening to her womanhood. So much so, that she and John are almost con-initiators of a seduction scene. When leaves for good, he seems like a strange interlude in both women's lives. In a final tableau, Annie and Helen stand on a darkening stage, their white ankle-length dresses wrapped around them like sails whipped by the wind, knowing that the only safe harbor lies...
...just fine." The others wondered why he was studying religion and Asian history, not law or business. "The good friends I had at the gas station didn't really try to understand. They accepted the fact I went to Harvard, and laughed at it, and moved on." One ex-con shared the Saturday night chores with him. "It was very slow, so he brought a chess board with him...He'd learned to play chess in prison, and he was superb. I'm a lousy chess player, and he would best me every time. But we'd play for hours...
...Livingstone's God is potent, why do the rains not come? Barred from Sechele's bed, she slithers back into it like a serpent of old Nile. When he reads from the Scriptures, Sechele's eyes are radiant. But is he a convert, or a con man more anxious for British guns than for God's grace? As for Livingstone, is not a single believer a joy to heaven? Or is he trying to amass a head count of natives for personal glory? Pownall raises these questions without really answering them. But he raises them with...
...always a con artist," Chairman of Friends of Harvard Track Jerry Kanten said. "He would get you irritated and challenge you mentally and physically...