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...first is the welfare of his family. His wife is also a mathematician, but she is seven years younger and would have faced much keener discrimination. Now she will be able to continue as a graduate student at M.I.T. His daughter is 11 years-old, and Bernstein states firmly, "I want some future...
...even keener interest than Mullen's role is why the White House agreed to the curtailment of the FBI's probe of Donovan. The day before the Labor Secretary's confirmation hearings began, an FBI official telephoned Fielding and informed him of "a tape recording" linking Donovan socially with "hoodlums." Fielding insists that he passed along all important information to his superiors, but says the White House was not fazed by the unsubstantiated charges. Counters one senior presidential adviser: "Fred was the only one directly in touch with the FBI investigation...
Douglass's reaction: "I suppose that had it not been for the imminent birth of our child, I would have felt a keener jealousy, a deeper bitterness...
Part of the allure of cocaine is the popular, but inaccurate, notion that it can make a male a keener achiever in bed. Says Lawrence Ross, director of a Marin County treatment center: "There is a tremendous premium on sexual performance for men. It is the one thing that people think they have to be good at." In fact, after sustained use cocaine can cause sexual dysfunction and impotence...
...beginning of the '80s, Americans may be on the point of another departure. The '80s may witness, for example, a long-overdue transition from an emphasis on feeling-"If it feels good, do it!"-to a keener focus on thought; feelings, at least the transcendent obliterations accomplished with drugs or extravagant sexual experiments, do not solve problems. Nor do the lesser sybaritisms of a hot-tub culture that in the '60s and '70s elaborated the idea of consumer comfort into a supine and giggling version of decadence...