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...friends were taciturn, self-made men who shunned the spotlight. These were principally those two rich entrepreneurs, Bebe Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp. "I'm an introvert in an extravert profession," Nixon said-a formula that itself may have been a stratagem of concealment. When confronted with a crisis, he became more secretive than ever, withdrawing into seclusion and arriving at a decision with relatively little outside advice. Sternly self-controlled ("I have a fetish about disciplining myself"), he was stiff in public and rarely relaxed in private. As Author Garry Wills maintained in Nixon Agonistes, Nixon erected this "wall...
...parents had left Johnstown, Pa., four years after the last flood. ("We weren't involved - we lived up on a hill.") His parents and the township were adamantly Republican, and before Harris graduated from Nether Providence High School in 1952, he had been transformed from an introvert into a veteran doorbell-ringer and door-slammer for the local...
...Danes had voted against membership in the Common Market, he said later. But now his sudden announcement caught his countrymen by surprise, though some intimates had detected signs of disenchantment in recent months. Krag, who is married to pretty Actress Helle Virkner, is essentially an intellectual and introvert, and he may have grown weary of the splits within his party and continuous pressure from the left wing. If anything, early success -he became a Cabinet minister at 33 and was Prime Minister for eight of the past ten years-helped to dampen his political appetite. He once told friends...
Perfect Frosting. His son was an "introvert" who desperately wanted to better himself, said William Bremer. Arthur's one passion was "books -books on math, books on psychology. He wasn't bright, but he read a lot and he passed most of his subjects. Honorablemention didn't mean nothing to him in a class. Jeez Christ, if his team didn't get a run or a score he'd come home and yell and kick at things." At other times "Artie baked a lot at home -cakes and cookies-and he made perfect frosting...
...final smoke-filled night of competition, there were some 400 casually clad spectators in the blue tiered seats and only two players still in contention: Irving ("The Deacon") Crane and Lou ("Machine Gun") Butera. It was a classic match-up of the tortoise and the hare, introvert against extravert and experience versus enthusiasm...