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...This place," said a lawyer, "is Sutter's Mill revisited." The place is Washington, where about 20,000 attorneys ply their trade; half are Government employees, the rest are general practitioners or private attorneys specializing in governmental relations. It is the latter group that gives the capital a kinship with the place where the California gold rush began in 1848. Established firms like Covington & Burling, with 185 attorneys, continue to grow at a brisk pace; new firms and branches of out-of-town firms are sprouting almost as fast, largely because of ever proliferating Government regulations. In the past...
...first trip east, to see New York City with friends. She'd been born in Wyoming--down-home, God-fearing Wyoming--and it was only a matter of time before the rural Fundamentalist began discussing religion with me, your basic, run-of-the-mill New York liberal Jewish atheist...
...unmaking of the self has absorbed the labors of our most talented writers. They, in turn, have been processed into romantic legend by journalists and biographers, to a point where literary heroes are more read about than read. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald have been through this mill more than most, and their legends have picked up a number of impurities along...
...more and more space to articles on life-style, personalities, commercial glamour and sexual mores--all of which sell magazines. It is hard to think of the writing in Time as much more than a mass product, so thoroughly has it been standardized and diluted by its editorial grist mill. Even The New York Times has initiated Living, Arts and Weekend sections to bolster sales, and regularly carries a profitable column by Mobil on its Op-Ed page...
Arithmetic and Logic. To handle, direct and process the flood of information, the computer relies on this unit, which Babbage dubbed the mill. It is here that the computer does its number crunching and data manipulation...