Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world according to Garp, we are obliged to remember everything." Or are forced to--like the Ellen Jamesians, bizarre creatures that flit through this often terrifying and macabre book. The Ellen Jamesians are women who have cut out their tongues in order to remember the case of Ellen James. Ellen James was an 11-year-old girl who was raped; her rapists then cut out her tongue to prevent her from describing them. What they of course forgot was that Ellen James could write. She wrote descriptions of her assailants, and they were caught. Later she comes to live with...
...mansion, "the most spirited social center in Washington." And as this colleaguecum-historian writes, "It was hard to resist the raffish, unpredictable, sometimes uncontrollable Kennedy parties." So this is biography written by the Washington equivalent of a drinking buddy of the subject. And the book's credibility is cut still further when, in a passage set in the early '60s, the author suddenly enters the picture, standing at poolside at Hickory Hill. And once the reader learns that he was pushed in, fully clothed, by Mo Udall's wife, the image of Schlesinger as scholar is suddenly transformed...
...many possibilities were cut short by the gun of Sirhan Sirhan on the night of California's primary. Schlesinger says that in the '70s none of America's politicians--a terms he rarely uses to describe Bobby--are anything like Bobby was. None have the same commitment, the same commitment, the same concern for the "desolate and disenfranchised." Except, of course, Teddy. It is in the '80s Schlesinger predicts, that Bobby's ideas will be remembered and revived, as the country renews its concern for the havenots. It is in the '80s, he says, that Robert Kennedy and His Times...
...income tax today than four years ago. I think that's insane." His audience agreed, but still seemed a bit baffled by the Kemp-Roth 33% solution. As Ann Hickey told the Republicans at a subsequent stop in Upper Darby, Pa.: "I just don't see how you can cut taxes without cutting services, and I want to know what services are going to be cut." The still untested Kemp-Roth theory may prove to be reasonably correct, but G.O.P. Congressman John Anderson of Illinois sardonically admits: "The average voter does not understand how the Laffer curve works, and neither...
While denouncing taxes with reborn evangelical fervor, Brown has skillfully muted the effects of Proposition 13 by distributing an accumulated revenue surplus of $4 billion to communities deprived of property tax revenues. He also signed a bill in August cutting personal income taxes by $1 billion next year, a move that will save each taxpaying family an average of $150. For this behavior, Brown has not won the endorsement but certainly the blessing of the most popular figure in the state, Howard Jarvis, author of Proposition 13. Jarvis originally appeared in a TV ad praising Younger for successfully opposing...