Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edmund Lloyd...
...Edmund G. Brown, Jr. named Sheldon W. Andelson--a Los Angeles lawyer who was a member of the platform committee at the Democratic National Convention in 1980--to the board...
...logs also disclose the curious range of conversations that J.F.K. taped: a meeting about "the gift of two tame deer" and the retirement of two White House policemen; a telephone call to congratulate California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown on his election victory over Nixon in 1962; a talk with his brother in 1963 to discuss articles in TIME and Newsweek; even chats with his wife Jacqueline, on topics blacked out in the logs...
Which is not to condemn Kafka in the least, for his suffering was truly awful: Hayman believes that it was quite an achievement for the writer to have salvages as much as he did from his despair. Even Edmund Wilson, in an essay that otherwise sternly downplays the importance of his work, concedes that "the cards were stacked against poor Kafka in an overpowering...
...financiers but in the universities. Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter was now sending along a pack of bright and ambitious young lawyers who came to be known as the "happy hot dogs." Washington "is more entertaining and more lively than at any time since the war," the critic Edmund Wilson reported in the New Republic. "Everywhere in the streets and offices you run into old acquaintances . . . the 'progressive' young instructors from the colleges, the intelligent foundation workers, the practical idealists of settlement houses, the radicals who are not too radical not to conceive that there may be just...