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What is it in this man, in his urgent voice and eager eyes, in the message and the messenger, that overwhelms even those who are predisposed to distrust him? Long ago, Billy Graham gave up the shiny suits and technicolor ties of the brash young evangelist; the silver mane is thinner now, the step may falter a bit, he no longer prowls the stage like a lynx. In his preaching as well, the temperatures of hellfire have been reduced, the volume turned down. Graham knows he needs to save his strength: he is fighting Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous...
...least, a virulent strain of anti-feminism running through this novel. Margaret, at age 28, agonizes about her husband's purported infidelity moaning that "he has forsaken my aging flesh for-for what? To lose him to some exquisite little girl with long hair flicking like a horse's mane, a student drawn to him and he to her, intoxicated with the wine dark words of Walt Whitman, yes, okay, that's as it should be." Since when does turning 30 signal the onset of senescence? Admittedly, there is a certain fragility to women's social status as they...
...extent to which this University allows its members to engage in activities which ultimately cheapen the Harvard mane never ceases to amaze me. The disproportionate attention that the school lavishes on the sodomizers among members of its community is one such example...
...written in their constitution that they have to do things which are mane." Taylor said. "Many members of the Republican Club are unhappy with its inactive role in the real political world...
Bartoli is right that no amount of coaching can create a voice like hers; one must be born with the raw material. But she was born with more than that. Her dark good looks project grandly across the footlights: a mane of lustrous hair, huge brown eyes, a generous mouth and milky shoulders that enhance a decolletage. She also has temperamental stability and a ready sense of humor. Says conductor James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera: "She has extraordinary self-perception, without the narcissism and the rest of the baloney." She will need her level-headedness...