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Clark saved his harshest words of the evening for Ronald Reagan's proposal to increase military spending. Clark said such a plan would be "extremely dangerous" and would produce "an endless arms race that will either bring us to bankruptcy or nuclear...
...that the ability to pen lines that seize readers has little to do with heredity. Rhyme and gene conditions do not necessarily mix. This message of the Lowell family leaps out of American Aristocracy. Again and again Heymann shows that distinguished writing flows only from distinguished living in its harshest sense. Only the three Lowells who actually reached down the throat of their heritage, grabbing their lives by the bowels and shaking them inside out, managed to leave behind--after the unpleasant ordeal--a literary legacy fit to form a kicking post and sounding board for the next generation...
Although the harshest plebe requirements have been dropped, some traditions remain. Plebes must take turns standing in the barrack halls and yelling out the dress for the day and the minutes remaining until formation. It is easy to recognize them; they are not supposed to initiate conversations and they must walk 120 steps a minute, always sticking to the walls of the stairwells and greeting upperclassmen. If another cadet wants to know what's happened in Iran yesterday, the plebe must answer. He is required to read and know the news on the front page of The New York Times...
...studio in Old Lyme, Conn. Guarding his nearby home is a 2-ft.-high statue of Antarctica's emperor penguin, Peterson's favorite bird-some birders call him "King Penguin." Says Peterson: "I like its manner and its elegance. They are survivors in one of the harshest climates in the world...
...measure of the manner in which he had ruled that in death, as in life, the former Shah was remembered more generously by foreigners than by his own people. Some of the harshest judgments had been pronounced by those who had faithfully, and sometimes servilely, worked under the Shah. "He was essentially a weak man who played the role of the dictator," said Fereydoun Hoveida, who for seven years was the Shah's Ambassador to the United Nations...