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This sounds like overstatement, and probably was. But Cheever, as he confided in another letter, believed that "interest is the first canon of aesthetics." Whatever he wrote about -- his work, his wife and children, his Labrador retrievers, his problems with alcohol and homosexuality -- he never forgot to keep his correspondent engaged and amused. Those who received his letters were lucky. This book extends the range of their good fortune...
...president of the "S. of I." (the Society of Inquiry), the most serious religious body on campus, one that dated from abolitionist days and has merged with the Y.M.C.A. in more recent times. During Bush's tenure, the group sent money to a Christian medical mission in Labrador. So there may be a theological basis for Bush's later assertion that his thoughts turned, after being shot down in war, to "Mother and Dad and the strength I got from them -- and God and faith and the separation of church and state." S. of I. theology leaned heavily toward...
...Christmas for neighbors and friends. In March he attended a farewell party for a Japanese journalist and his wife with whom the Norths had become friends after selling them a puppy. He seems to be relishing the time at home with his three children and Max, the family's Labrador retriever. Like any suburban dad on a weekend, he can be seen cutting the grass and barbecuing in the backyard. During the day his wife Betsy keeps the kitchen television tuned to the Iran-contra hearings...
...Weingrow Eagle, 31, an entertainment lawyer, also fill out the DINK profile. In order to earn their hefty incomes, each one works 50 to 60 hours a week. They have two dogs and care for them the way they decorate their home -- which is to say, lavishly. "Earthquake, our Labrador-husky mix, has beautiful blue eyes. I have blue eyes, so people think I'm his father," jokes David. "We're going skiing tomorrow and taking both dogs with us." In the late 1960s he supported Eugene McCarthy and was labeled a hippie. In the late 1970s he became...
...tabbies joined six horses, five dogs, four ducks and two rabbits. The impressive collection of critters has evolved more or less spontaneously. Two of the most senior Reagan pets are dogs that date back to his days as an ex-Governor and a President-in-waitin g. Millie, a Labrador- setter mix, came in the '70s with Lee Clearwater, a caretaker of Rancho del Cielo who died last year; next Taka, a purebred Husky, was given to the Reagans by friends. During the 1980 presidential race, an admiring Wisconsin couple presented the Reagans with Victory, a golden retriever. (Later that...