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...revving up began on ABC's highly successful This Week with David Brinkley, where Sam Donaldson is teamed with Columnist George F. Will, whom Brinkley describes as "an Encyclopaedia Britannica on wheels." Side by side, they take turns at boring in on a guest. Only a politician with aplomb and a fast tongue can escape being overwhelmed by this pair, even though, as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man answers one. Sometimes an affable Brinkley eases up their questioning: "We've become aware of very bad public reaction...
...master of the Socratic method, he has taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He is chairman of the board of editors for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the author of 30 books. His newest: How to Speak / How to Listen. With Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins, he compiled the Great Books of the Western World, 54 volumes of the world's classics. Last year he published The Paideia Proposal, a manifesto to reform U.S. primary and secondary education by instituting a standard and much more demanding curriculum. When he led the procession to Columbia College's commencement...
...early last year, just as the delegates were putting what they thought were the final touches on the sea treaty, the newly inaugurated Reagan Administration abruptly announced that it wanted to review the whole treaty. Later the Administration introduced what Secretary of State Alexander Haig privately described as an "Encyclopaedia Britannica of changes." Its action caught the conference by surprise, because the treaty contained many provisions that would benefit the U.S. Among other things, it set a twelve-mile territorial limit for coastal nations, provided them with a 200-mile "economic" or fishing zone, and protected their...
...Bishop has written about these people elsewhere. His accounts of his own maddening family seem fresher. His father was a 250-lb. police lieutenant who read the Encyclopaedia Britannica volume by volume. He moved in across town with a neighbor's wife when Jim was a boy, and came slinking back 16 years later, his police career wrecked by the scandal. After Bishop's first wife died in 1957, he married the divorced wife of a cousin, scandalizing his Irish Catholic relatives only slightly less than his father...
...Owner Roarty tries to kill his philandering barman Eamonn Bales with a toadstool omelet. When the poison fails, the publican does in the cad with a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...