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...Florida, earning a B.A. and an M.A. in the history of ideas. In the mid-'60s she moved to New York, enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Columbia University, then dropped out and worked as a model in New York, Paris and Milan. She does not care to dwell on her modeling career "because when you say 'model,' people think you're frivolous...
...dealt in matters of substance, giving examples from around the country about what can happen when you have a one-paper town, or how publishers force their biases into print, or how we are privy to such poor foreign reporting. When Liebling wrote on the Times' he didn't dwell on inter-office memos. He would critique the paper and show how, for instance, it may slant a labor story against management or get the facts wrong...
...idea, for sure, but reiteration tends to reinforce its credibility, warning that before women dwell on how to live with a man and a career, they must first learn to live alone. That is Jaffe...
Activities like these sometimes draw the scorn of those who dwell on the flaws of American society. But these civic efforts are the grace notes of any community...
Zenith of Vice. "The fashion is now to dwell on the deadly analogies between the Roman world and our own," wrote Herbert Muller in The Uses of the Past, "in the suspicion that history may repeat itself after all." At first glance, some of those analogies seem not merely intriguing but obvious. Historian Michael Grant divides his The Fall of the Roman Empire into six broad categories: "The Failure of the Army," "The Gulfs Between the Classes," "The Credibility Gap," "The Partnerships That Failed," "The Groups That Opted Out" and "The Undermining Effort." The echoes of the Old World...