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...will think twice, and then a third time, about any vote that will jeopardize his seat; profiles in courage are rare enough, but a fullface confrontation with danger is what a skilled politician is most skilled at avoiding. Incumbency is also beautiful in the eyes of the giver. As Common Cause points out, the decisive factor in raising campaign contributions is not whether the candidate is a Republican or Democrat, but whether he is an "in" or an "out." Incumbents get three times as much. No wonder Congressmen are willing to reform presidential campaign financing but not their...
...selfless, tireless one, the rich giver and the meek receiver, with life giving energy flowing like milk from the breast, costing her nothing, is too, too much. Looked at in the grey light of daily living the concept is the demand of the ravening child, and we cannot respond to such a claim in man or child...At my age I care to my roots about the quality of women, and I care because I know how important her quality...
...wine, worth at his estimate at least $3 million. ("It's my Fort Knox," he says.) When a guest asks for a Coca-Cola, the waiter invariably replies, "What is that? How do you spell it?" There is one innovation that particularly pleases the well-to-do party giver: Terrail's notion of presenting only the host with a menu that lists prices. (A dinner for two, with a modest wine, will cost an average...
...doubt the mothers of many such infants are simply and directly told by their doctors that the children they carried for nine months were stillborn. The doctor thus participates in mercy-killing. Alas, the merciful physician--possessor of the "God syndrome"--giver and taker of life...
...becomes of the "feminine" aspect of human personality in Don Juan's world? In the first book, Don Juan reverses our cultural stereotypes in describing an ally as female-like: violent, cruel, unpredictable. On the other hand, mescalito, the spirit of peyote, is described as male-like: kind, generous, giver of pleasure. Don Juan can be kind and nurturant towards his protege, but the emphasis is always on stoic courage. It appears no accident that Castaneda's opponent is the deadly sorceress La Catalina, who is the only woman in the three books...