Word: hadn
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...something about the generation that grew up in the '60s in the midst of extraordinary affluence, that led us to expect something from the world that generations before us hadn't expected: a level of personal fulfillment and freedom, and the therapeutic gratification that society didn't make easy to maintain," says Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University and former Harvard faculty member...
...Vonnegut told the seniors at Syracuse University to slow down. "I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable--and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade--he would say, 'If this isn't nice, what is?'...Now, if he hadn't said that so regularly, maybe five or six times a month, we might not have paused to notice how rewarding life can be sometimes...
McCarthy roved west in the early '70s, looking for a spot that hadn't been written out. The second Mrs. McCarthy wasn't invited along. Published words about the South were everywhere, thick as clematis on a mailbox. This border territory, though, offered room. And it came with a history. As McCarthy writes in his new novel, "A good deal of what could be seen in the world had passed this way. Armored Spaniards and hunters and trappers and grandees and their women and slaves and fugitives and armies and revolutions and the dead and dying. And all that...
...Camelot and gave the world an image of her husband that is still, for all the revelations of the past three decades, alive. She provided an image of herself too, perhaps more than she knew. The day before she died, a young schoolteacher in New York City who hadn't even been born when she spoke to Teddy White, told me of his shock that she was leaving us. "I thought she would be like Guinevere," he said. "I thought she would ride off on a horse, in her beautiful silence, and never...
Still, the President hadn't been all that comfortable with Breyer when he considered and rejected him last year for the Supreme Court seat he eventually offered to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a face-to-face meeting at the time -- which took place just days after Breyer had suffered two broken ribs from being struck by a car while riding his bicycle -- Clinton found the judge to be "stiff and a little too eager," says a White House official involved in the selection process. "He also came across as very much of an intellectual ! who flits from issue to issue...