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...that the play existed outside his mind even for a short period of time. "I compare it to lighting where the colors and lights are ephemeral. The next day all that work is nothing but a list of cue sheets or in this case a script in a desk drawer...
...talks about the year Aunt Grace got cancer and Aunt Elinor mobilized everyone to read Christian Science literature. It retells stories long since drained of humor or sadness but not of their power as talismans, like stones found in childhood that still cause a tingle when discovered in a drawer and held in the hand...
Denis might also have been surprised to see his wife's career blossom just as his was ending. Born in London in 1915, he was sent to Mill Hill, a second-drawer boarding school, then went on to join the Royal Artillery. By the end of World War II, he had risen to the rank of major. There was also a brief marriage and a divorce. Denis' grandfather in Kent had discovered an effective sheep-dip and founded a company, Atlas Preservatives, to market it. After the war, Denis went to work for the firm, which became...
...scrupulous office manager, Stan S. Butler. The chalkboard was always washed, and notices on the bulletin board were always squarely lined up and pinned with four tacks each. Butler also apparently labelled everything "OFFICE COPY." Including one participant recalls, a single matchbook deep in a musty file drawer...
Even before Moynihan hired him last November, Breindel's resume was impeccably top drawer: Exeter prep school education, editorial chairman of the daily Crimson as an undergraduate at Harvard, graduate of Harvard Law School, sometime student at the London School of Economics. He has a book in progress about Zionist history and has written an impressive sheaf of neoconservative pieces on politics and foreign affairs for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New Republic and Commentary. "He's very much a real intellectual," says one of his editors. "His passion is the world of ideas...