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...stare at the TV, pretending fascination with a game show as a way of avoiding either a conversation that's sure to turn prickly or a long night of sullen introspection. They offer old doggerel - like Eleanor Roosevelt's "Yesterday is history, tomorrow's a mystery, today's a gift. That's why they call it the present" - as eternal wisdom. The men in Snow Angels have the appetites of the philanderers they see in movies but not the suave patter; a cheating husband in this town is unprepared for the inevitable lies or evasions he'll need when...
...London pub, however. Weiner's travel writing delivers nourishing moments of humor and lucidity. (Travel, he reminds us, comes from the French word travail, or work, a thing that was for centuries relegated to unlucky pilgrims, nomads and soldiers who were forced to wander.) Sardonic observation is his particular gift. In the capital of Moldova - among the least happy places in the world according to the WDH - he walks past a couple of cops who "like all Moldovan men, have a thuggish quality and look like they could use a bath. Unlike most Moldovan men, they are markedly pudgy...
...from New Orleans affected your writing? -S. Fitzgerald, Portland, Ore.I lived in New Orleans for 15 years, and I loved it. But now is the time for me to be in a place of quiet to write and research. Not a monastic life--because I don't have the gift of being able to deny myself like that--but a life of peace. I live out here in retreat...
...Senator Richard Nixon—besieged by corruption allegations—famously shifted attention with a televised reference to Checkers, a dog he had been given as a political gift. Nixon left the television studio downcast, but in the coming days, 250,000 Americans sent letters to the Republican National Committee endorsing Nixon, and defending Checkers...
...Franklin Roosevelt's experience as governor of New York that gave him the power to inspire in some of the nation's darkest hours? Or was that gift a distillate of his dauntless battle with polio? To a keen student of human nature, all of life offers lessons in how to lead, inspire and endure. Lincoln's ability to apply useful lessons from his motley experiences was among his most striking traits. When Ulysses Grant explained his grand strategy to defeat Lee by attacking on multiple fronts, Lincoln immediately thought of a lesson in joint operations learned years earlier...