Word: happiered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...happier outcome would be for the Chinese to stop their public scolding of President Reagan and Secretary Shultz, entice them to Peking, and offer them in person the sorts of reassurances they have been trying to convey through Private Citizens Nixon and Kissinger. The geopolitical imperatives that brought the two nations together a decade ago are now more compelling than ever. But the mutual confidence and respect that Nixon and Chou En-lai were able to establish have not proved to be transferable to their successors. For the strategic partnership between China and the U.S. to survive, there will have...
...just exhausted. As I rode to the Capitol and sat through the Inaugural ceremonies, the hostages were always on my mind. I still had no assurance that my efforts would be successful, and no way to know that this would soon become one of my happiest days, even happier than that day exactly four years earlier when President Gerald Ford had greeted me on the way to my own Inauguration...
IVISITED MONACO during happier times, on the last day of June this summer. The city of Monte Carlo was just gearing up for another prosperous summer of tourism and gambling. When my friend and I stepped off the train in Monaco (30 minutes away from our hotel in Nice, France) I was immediately reminded of what Ernest Hemingway once wrote of Switzerland: "A small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways." Closely packed high-rise apartment buildings and hotels dot the sunbaked hills of Monte Carlo, creating an atmosphere that is a dazzling and claustrophobic. We labored...
Kierkegaard once confided to his journal that he would have been much happier if he had become a police spy rather than a philosopher. Richard Nixon always wanted to be a sportswriter. If one considers these fantasies together, they seem to have got weirdly crossed. It is Nixon who should have been the police spy. On the other hand, Kierkegaard would probably have made an extraordinarily depressing sportswriter (Fear and Trembling: The Angst of Bucky Dent...
Although she is a practicing psychotherapist, Author Eileen Simpson does not try to explain why so many talented writers became so self-destructive. Instead, she looks back affectionately to happier times, when careers were just beginning and prospects bright. Her marriage to Berryman in 1942 brought her abruptly into a small intense world where the subject of poetry superseded all others. She took on both a husband and a calling: "To be the 'helpmate' . . . to a poet would be the most interesting and useful way for a woman to spend her life." Berryman, then 28 and an English...