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...sheer vastness and excess, Bob Hope's three-year-old, 25,000-sq.-ft. home in Palm Springs, Calif., is not the gesture of an old man content to dwell quietly among yesterday's memories. Climbing the cascade of black marble stairs under the house's wide-vaulting arch, a visitor might be on some gigantic Academy Awards set, a gleaming desert mirage. Actually, the place is a kind of hotel. Even when the owner is on the road, friends check in for a few days. On this afternoon, however, the sound of Crosby-esque bubabooing from...
...subject urgent due to the current oscillatory excalation in preparations for war. Perhaps your reporter did not avail himself of this opportunity for clarification because he feels the arguments is trivial. There is an unfortunate tendency throughout the American mass media irresponsibly to trivialize urgent matters and to dwell on the trivial. Let me assure you that the question of the nature of mass social pathology, and the role of diagnosis in combatting it, have been of great concern to psychiatrists and others since before Sigmund Freud was kept under close house arrest by the Nazis...
Stricker said she would prefer not to dwell on her performance explaining that she believes her time should improve. In a really big race there is so much excitement that inspires you to run faster," she said. "If you get a top runner to set the pace and do the work for you then can run even faster...
...Faulkner's niece. He has, Conaway observes, "grown broad of beam," sitting there with his dog Pete, "a black Lab with the canine equivalent of a beer belly." Conaway sketches in the intervening years: at Harper's, "his stewardship foundered in 1971," so Morris went off "to dwell on the cusp of his own notoriety." His books since are quickly disposed of: one is "a disappointment to his admirers"; another a critic had called "derivative drivel"; a third "did nothing to enhance Morris' reputation...
Before assuming a lead role local governments must overcome a lendency to dwell on ineffective short term planning, said An thony Downs, a Bookings Institution economist, author and consultant on urban affairs...