Word: famous
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...last one asked to the prom." Not quite. Nixon had had Rogers in mind for Secretary of State for some time. Rogers has enjoyed Nixon's complete trust since the 1952 campaign, when he advised Nixon during the furor over the "Nixon fund" and helped frame the famous Checkers speech. In 1955, when Eisenhower suffered a heart attack, Nixon turned to Rogers before anyone else. "He was a friend," Nixon later wrote in Six Crises, "who had proved during the fund crisis that he was a cool man under pressure, had excellent judgment, and was one to whom...
...problem. He sat in judgment of a schizophrenic boy who wrote from a juvenile asylum requesting "weapons, munitions, cameras, explosives and a diamond ring" to overthrow the Nazi regime; of a Catholic priest who dispatched an appeal for a "humane peace" to a Swedish bishop; of an internationally famous biologist who told a friend that he expected the Third Reich to crumble. All were condemned to death. To be sure, Rehse served only as a member on the bench of one of Hitler's most notorious political judges, "Raving Roland" Freisler, who escaped the Allies' justice by dying...
...Choirs, supposedly stripped of their talents by the reorganization of the Glee Club, were said to be less than protean musicreaders, and in general hopelessly inadequate to the almost insuperable vocal difficulties of Beethoven's masterwork. And so, as I entered the hall I remembered Robert Scott's famous lament at the end of his diary, written as the merciless Antarctic finally buried him: "We took risks; we knew we took them...
...students of the famous sociologist--many of them lounging with him on the grass--say that he writes in Hebrew like Talcott Parsons writes in English. The American students remark that he even writes in English Parsonesquely. He is not universally loved: "When I came to Hebrew University I was looking for an excuse to get out of sociology, and professor Eisenstadt gave it to me," an Israeli philosophy student remarked. But for most of his students and for nearly all the academic world, Eisenstadt's work is exciting, brilliant, and extraordinarily relevant...
BEGINNING WITH Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and Newton and his famous apple, there has been more fiction than truth in the popular conception of how scientists discover what they discover. And the conception of what motivates them to discover anything at all is equally mythical...