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...short, the American dream with an English accent. "I come from a very poor family," he says. "I've had a hard background. But I always knew that I would do something." What else is left to do? At this point, his dream, which is only half in jest, is purely English. Would you believe Dame Twiggy...
There is a barbed edge of truth in Nixon's jest. As the peripatetic Spiro Agnew sets out on yet another international jaunt, this time to Greece, Turkey and Iran, few men would envy anyone the task of handling the Vice President's press corps-small, hand-picked lot though they are.* Will Agnew make another gaffe like adversely comparing American black leaders to African dictators? Will he praise the Greek ruling junta as a force for law-and-order? Will he do nothing in Iran but play golf-or worse, just sit in his tent...
...student of both Irish and British history, I found it incredible that you describe Great Britain as "that most gentie and civilized of lands" [Aug. 23]. Surely you speak in jest. No other country could compete with the imperialistic, bloody past of England. In her notorious history, that "gentle land" has been involved in war with almost every nation on earth. Such an unadmirable trait seems to stem mainly from misguided English efforts to civilize the rest of the barbaric world. I remember that Americans' forebears threw the English out of America in 1776. The Nationalists in Derry...
...gentle jest, the Wilson Library Bulletin printed a sign that read NO SILENCE. Mrs. Jeanne Phipps, chief librarian in Ogden, Iowa (pop. 1,500), found wisdom in the wit: "For a long time I had felt that our library was too formal. The association sort of said, 'We dare you to put this sign...
...have a lot of good ideas to go against the ones I hold. I'm sure there are times when Ed has influenced me, but that's half the fun of it, too. We are always trying to persuade one another-sometimes we do it in jest, sometimes we are serious in purpose. Maybe he's helped to change part of an idea [I have] rather than a whole idea. [As for whether she has ever changed Eddie's views]: I don't think he'd admit to that...