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...Britain the President and Queen Elizabeth graciously joked about her forebear George III, who, she said, "played a seemingly disastrous role" in our affairs some 200 years back. When Reagan went to view the Berlin Wall, the gesture evoked more memories, this time of Kennedy, 19 Junes ago, when millions of besieged West Berliners cheered and wept as he drove through their midst and finally shouted his challenge, now etched deeply in history: "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...faulty wiring, which caused damage of $2 million to the 35-room house and $600,000 to furnishings. Few of the nearly 6,000 items of F.D.R. memorabilia were beyond repair. Custodians of the mansion raced in to retrieve items ranging from a Gilbert Stuart portrait of a Roosevelt forebear to F.D.R.'s mother's 3-ft. potted palm...
Poor Russell's Almanac will never achieve the fame of its forebear, Ben Franklin's legendary compendium of minutiae. Indeed, the $12 edition Baker has targeted at holiday shoppers might be worth skipping until the inevitable paperback appears. But read the newest Almanac and cherish Baker's insights. It is a rare man who can so aptly criticize America's foibles and still maintain a sense of humor. Baker does it better than anyone...
...condition of man to a manageable chemical problem mocks not only all his own best writing but also some very intelligent philosophy which he has previously raided for the substance of his own work. Perhaps the self-appointed Kierkegaard of the mint julep golf circuit would blame his intellectual forebear's disaffection on anemia...
...condition of man to a manageable chemical problem mocks not only all his own best writing but also some very intelligent philosophy which he has previously raided for the substance of his own work. Perhaps the self-appointed Kierkegaard of the mint julep golf circuit would blame his intellectual forebear's disaffection on anemia...