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...less understood, by the public he serves. Dillon is a pragmatic, liberal Republican who holds down one of the most sensitive jobs in a Democratic Administration (not all Republicans can forgive him that). He can coldly and calmly approve a $6 billion deficit for the nation; he can also fret over the health of the honey locust trees near his home. Steeled in Wall Street's rough and tumble, Dillon preserves a diffident professorial manner, and revels in tastes that few of his countrymen share: vintage wines. Savile Row suits (from Henry Poole & Co.). fine paintings and finer porcelain...
Autobiographical Confessions. Even in his past, there is a lot to fret about. He describes his early self as "show-off," "smart aleck," "clod" and "wisecracking punk," worriedly says, "I'm sure my friends thought I was a pansy. I sculpted in wood and wrote short stories...
Among victorious swimming coaches there are two kinds of men, those who fret and never sleep, and those who work hard, but lead the good life and sleep well. Varsity mentor Bill Brooks, of the latter category, might just as well stay in bed today, because his boys are going to murder Brown...
...Buddha, as they always are in British light fiction. No one knows why, just as no one knows why characters in U.S. ladies' fiction are all named Brett and Brick and Brack and Blade.) The tizzies in which the islanders become involved may be trivial-can anyone really fret about the problems of a cuckolded duke if he is called Droopy?-but they are enjoyed by all hands, including the author...
...fact was that the 1960 conference of Berlin could fret over Western man's inner freedom only because, as George Kennan pointed out, "the external dangers" to freedom have receded. "So far as ideology is concerned," said Kennan in a somberly eloquent survey, it is the Communists "who are on the defensive, faced with the insistence of their own youth on the right to knowledge and inquiry...