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...liberated from that old provincial feeling. And he shows it. He is tanned, he swims a lot, he is healthy?people are interested in the body out here. The California businessman is a rounded guy." I watch Mahoney stroll through the ferns and I wonder . . . maybe his bottom drawer really is free of Gelusils and Miltown. But what about the executives on the lower level? Are they quite as ulcer-and-anxiety free? Where, after all, do California psychiatrists find their patients...
BESIDES the perceptive narrators who are able to maturely integrate their lives, Mr. Taylor describes those top-drawer people who grow into unhappy insurance men and car dealers. They are often incapable of a generous and rich relationship with a partner, with children, with-simply-any other human being. Mr. Taylor suggests that the family can effectively balance the fear and uncertainty of life. Yet this kind of security is not automatic. The man in "At the Drugstore" can say that he and his father "had . . . made these adjustments and concessions that a happy and successful life requires. . . . They...
...Christine's recounting as "a good lesson to all politicians." A frontpage story accompanying the first installment carried the justification further. Noting that "an ex-King of England" and four Prime Ministers had written their memoirs, it reasoned that "what is good for those out of the top drawer is also good for others who made a contribution to contemporary history...
...addition to being elected captain, Regan was also recognized as the winner of the ground ball prize, Regan beat out linemate and center-drawer Jim Kilkowski for the honor, after Kilkowski had won it the last two years. Also noted was John Ince, who was the team's scoring leader again. he led the Ivy League...
...QUESTIONS concerning the ambiguous world of Daumier sculpture have been snatched away from a dusty drawer of art history and neatly placed in a revolutionary exhibition at the Fogg Museum. Rather than presenting only assuredly authentic pieces, the curators have invited viewers to join in their game of evaluation by including in the show works of dubious origin. You judge the merit of a cast; you detect a forgery...