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...every photo-op turned out quite as it had been planned, however. A potluck supper at a farmhouse in Kempton that had been built by one of Obama's great-uncles (who had been a member of the Indiana legislature), on land that had once been bought by his great-great-great-great grandfather, had to be canceled after the weather turned frigid and gale-force gusts defeated the campaign's efforts to set up tables. Instead, the Obama family had to settle for an uncomfortably chilly walk around the property...
...starting educational campaigns at the industry level now and holding off on public appeals until 2008 PlantRight's aim is to prepare nurseries well ahead of the anticipated consumer demand for regional plants. Project manager Terry Kempton says her program is indeed viewed as "more of a support to the industry and not a threat," which bolsters participation...
That's it, boys - bring on the lawyers. Let them descend from the hills after the battle (in the late Murray Kempton's phrase) in order to shoot the wounded...
...columnist Murray Kempton invented the term "the Family" to describe the New York intellectuals--a half-forgotten confraternity of writers and thinkers--clustered roughly around Partisan Review and Commentary. But it was Norman Podhoretz, in his young rooster's memoir, Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early...
...encouragement of that English A section man, and later from Kenneth Payson Kempton in his short story class and Carvel Collins, who gave a wonderful composition course and who steered my to my encounter with Life magazine and thus set my whole professional life in motion, I could hope to make my way as a writer, despite my dismal performance on the Anticipatory Exam...