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...didn't cut off the crusts" (he had forgotten to trim the connubial toast), Alvarez thought: "It's the wrong script." Frantically, he turned page after page. Didn't Lawrence write that Grand Passion was part of the Great Tradition? Wasn't marriage a heroic endeavor? When, four years later, his marriage foundered, the writer felt that he had failed not only as a husband but as a literary critic...
Unlike other candidates who were in New York lobbying for the job, Pérez stayed in Lima, the Peruvian capital, during the vote. After hearing news of his selection, he said, "My main concern and endeavor will be what it has always been, peace among nations." Given Pérez's age, U.N. officials do not expect him to seek a second term. That should be a welcome consolation prize for the other candidates, especially Salim. The Tanzanian, who will be only 44 when the next vote comes up, no doubt still hopes to be the first African...
...This endeavor stars Boyce Kaihiihikapuokalani, a citizen remarkable, if not for his voice, then at least for courage in signing his kindergarten drawings. The album also features a number of other bilinguists, who sing every few lines of most of the cuts in "ear-caressing" Hawaiian and the rest in plain old English. The result is jarring, to say the least; not to disparage our compatriots to the southwest, but consider the following phonetic interpretation of "Jingle Bells...
...deciding instead, as he put it, to pursue a "more intellectually honest life." What he found was another calling. For 48 years, eleven volumes and nearly 10,000 pages, Will Durant labored with monastic devotion on a "biography of mankind" that would place 110 centuries of human thought and endeavor within easy reach for the average reader. The Story of Civilization was, he admitted, "an absurd enterprise, immodest in its very conception," but also irresistible to the compulsive teacher and self-confessed "lover of the lovers of wisdom," who died a week...
...villain for doing so--the problems with the administration's foreign policy are the president's fault and not Haig's. Indeed, he is more victim than instigator. A former career military man, Haig is accustomed to taking orders from higher-ups. With no policy guidelines, he must naturally endeavor to initiate them. In doing so he has often been contradicted by other senior advisors or Cabinet officials such as National Security Advisor, Richard V. Allen, or Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger Jr. '38. Part of the reason many Haig policy pronouncements have been so controversial is that...