Word: joans
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...campaign against Ronald Reagan. Thus there was no response when Kennedy attacked Carter as a "clone of Ronald Reagan" and said that the Administration's economic policies were "alien to everything the Democratic Party stands for." Rosalynn Carter's anger vibrated through the White House corridors when Joan Kennedy archly told a reporter that she was better equipped than Rosalynn for life in the White House because she was a "sophisticated lady" and held a master's degree in education. But in obedience to the presidential edict, the slur went unanswered...
...mother Rose, Joan Copeland is a fountain of humor, a river of love, and a rock of survival, despite occasional attacks of frayed nerves. Perhaps Miller's real time machine is memory and its curving flight into the distant past of one's fledgling manhood...
...also bestowed degrees on three well-known American academics, including zoologist Ernst Mayr, historian John M. Blum '43, and sociologist Robert Merton; and two British scholars, economist Joan V. Robinson and legalist Herbert L.A. Hart...
...Joan V. Robinson, economist and professor of economics Emeritus at Cambridge University--Doctor of Laws...
Moravia has always been adept at manipulating literary conceits for startling effect. He once wrote a novel about a man who talked to his penis. An Italian Joan of Arc who hears the voice of nihilism calling her to action is a promising conception, and the author has not lost his admirable appetite for extremism in the defense of humanism...