Word: harold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harold Straughn...
Carter contended that reports about pressure on him to select one candidate or another have been "grossly exaggerated." Nonetheless, such pressure persisted, for example, in the debate over whether he should choose Caltech President Harold Brown or Schlesinger for the Pentagon...
Among the others summoned by Carter were four possible candidates for Defense Secretary: Caltech President Harold Brown, former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Bendix Corp. Chairman Michael Blumenthal and Washington Lawyer Paul Warnke. Carter also interviewed Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who may become his national security adviser; Washington State Representative Brock Adams, a possible Transportation Secretary; former IBM Corp. Vice President Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a possible Commerce, HUD or HEW Secretary; and black Georgia Representative Andrew Young, who insists that he wants to stay in Congress...
...Great Epic. In any event, this fragment clearly is a major addition to the Milton corpus, illuminating as it does with hitherto unparalleled clarity the personal dimension to Paradise Lost, showing how deeply rooted the poem is in Milton's own experience. The fragment also seems to confirm Harold Bloom's controversial claim in A Map of Misreading that Milton's "allusiveness introjects the past, and projects the future, but at the paradoxical cost of the present, which is not voided but is yielded up to an experiential darkness." The fragment is printed here for the first time, with spelling...
...dialogue, which sounds like counsel from "The Playboy Adviser," the twists of plot have been extensively mapped by previous train thrillers, from The Lady Vanishes to Gary Grant's interlude aboard the Twentieth Century Limited in North by Northwest. Director Arthur Hiller (Love Story) and Scenarist Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude) are simply following along the tracks...