Word: hand
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...White. Amfitheatrof, who covered the 1976 Italian general election as a TIME correspondent in Rome and has reported on the sometimes unruly politics of Africa and the Mediterranean, was delighted to find this campaign unmistakably British. He recalls watching Callaghan at a whistlestop, a cup of tea in his hand, plunging into the crowd and politely imploring them: "Forgive me for having my lunch as I go along...
Nothing is too big or too small for Bennett to put his hand to. He scribbles away at the obligatory manifestoes, digs in on fund raising, entertains the big-name circuit riders, like David Riesman, Jacques Barzun and Mortimer Adler, who drop by, and sends the fellows out on their own hustings, mostly to lecture at the three universities in the neighborhood: Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State. Then he taps out a memo: "Lost. Alice has asked us all to check whether her thin black-handled Henckels knife went home by mistake on a cake platter...
...Columbia but also mans an office that the N.H.C. maintains in New York City. Long an ideologue of the humanities, Frankel has defined the tightrope Bennett and the fellows must walk. The center is not for "the leisure of the theoried class," he says. But scholarship, on the other hand, "must be free to follow crooked paths to unexpected conclusions...
Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson insists on explicit Soviet assurances on emigration before the amendment is repealed. Anything less, said an aide, "would be a terrible signal. We would indicate to them that we are willing to bend the law to accommodate them." On the other hand, Ohio Congressman Charles Vanik, who returned last week from a ten-day trip to Moscow and Leningrad, is willing to waive the restrictions without assurances, as long as "this improved climate on emigration is really Soviet policy...
...quotes. It would have been just as easy to check A.J. Leibling's Earl of Louisiana (1961), in the chapter "Henry Luce's Shoestore," to get the quote right. In another case, 100 pages after Halberstam has convinced the reader that Kyle Palmer was the Chandlers' right hand in matters political, he reveals that Norman Chandler refused Palmer a pension when the latter was retired and destitute. Either Palmer wasn't as powerful as Halberstam makes out, or there was more to the Chandler/Palmer relationship than Halberstam would have us believe...