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...anyone else in the late 15th century about statics, dynamics, hydraulics, geology, paleontology, optics, aerodynamics and anatomy. In the realms of craftsmanship, from the construction of domes and earthworks to the casting of cannon to batter them down, he seems to have known at least as much as any guild master. Nobody else in his time or culture had such a range of interests. Nor did anybody else share his depth of pessimism; for Leonardo, in his old age, was not Edison but King Lear, obsessed to the point of anguish by human insignificance and apocalyptic doom...
...acknowledgements, including Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., John McPhee, William Saroyan (apparently still kicking around), Frank Sinatra, John Cheever and John Updike. They all find their way into the narrative. O'Hara's employers--Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, The New Yorker, Random House and the Screenwriters Guild--allowed MacShane to dig through O'Hara's files...
Under the agreement, volunteers will be allowed to go on the air despite union guidelines that normally permit only guild members to broadcast...
...feelings. All his political opinions have been born of feelings?the passionate antagonism toward Big Government resulting from his boyhood observations of Dixon and his own experiences with the progressive income tax once he returned from the military; his staunch anti-Communism from his days with the Screen Actors Guild in the late 1940s, when he packed a pistol for self-protection. He will read up on a subject once it has initially been proved on his pulses...
With animals now so popular on Madison Avenue, the inevitable has happened: they are organizing. California Trainer Ralph Heifer has formed the Animal Guild of America. The union's initial demand is that animals receive residuals, the fees that human actors earn each time their commercials appear on the air. At present they receive only one-time flat fees. If animals are not accorded equal rights, Heifer warns, a beastly nationwide strike may be in the offing...