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...figures they resemble," she writes. "Those who study their silky movements from outside the glass don't criticize what they are wearing, what they do, what they say, what they mean, nor do they ask the fish lots of questions or expect them to do much more than entertain...
...paint but left unfinished at his death would have been closer to his intentions if cut back to raw steel. If he had wanted them raw, he would not have begun to paint them. Indeed, the vitality and open-endedness of his work largely stemmed from his refusal to entertain the kind of narrow imperatives about painting as painting and sculpture as sculpture that Greenberg, in the days when he was writing criticism, proposed...
...never been to a White House briefing or a presidential news conference. He does not entertain Cabinet officers at dinner parties or travel the chichi social circuit open to influential Washington journalists. He shuns the press clubs, including the one where other black newsmen meet. His beat is largely confined to a cluttered, windowless office just off the Washington Post's news room and a vast network of telephone sources. Were it not for a slight resemblance to Comedian Flip Wilson and a penchant for wearing red plaid trousers, Columnist William Raspberry could do his work unnoticed, until another...
When somebody talked about "the mansion," the part of the White House where the Fords live and entertain, the President ordered that it be called "the residence." The name The Spirit of 76 emblazoned on the side of the President's plane will stay for a few months, but Ford plans by Christmas to reduce it again to the functional code, Air Force One. He has banished the royal "we" from statements and speeches. It will be "I." Talking Republican politics last Thursday, he came across the term surrogates used for those Administration speakers who will carry the G.O.P...
...unequal male-female ration here, you may in fact be 2.5 times smarter than your Harvard classmate. The people who actually believe things like that are aggravated Harvard undergraduates who will dismiss you as a snotty-Ali McGraw-bitch. Worse, though, are the professors who would never even entertain thoughts about your intelligence. With the same lack of awareness that leads them to believe that Radcliffe students pay a different tuition than Harvard students, they have never fully absorbed the fact that Harvard has been educating men and women in the same classrooms, sections and tutorials since 1943 As Radcliffe...