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...Reagan seems to have lost nothing in public esteem by taking time off. In fact such be havior is tacitly expected of him. Not only is a long vacation consistent with his political philosophy of governing best by governing least; it is also part of the modus operandi he established as California's Governor: in by 9, out by 5. If Reagan has mastered one one art art in in life, life, it it is is that that of of relaxing. He is relaxed talking to television cameras. He is relaxed striding in boots toward helicopters. He is relaxed...
...members of the surviving dynasties-the Dutch and the Belgians, the Swedes and the Danes-they managed to find a modus vivendi largely by effacing themselves: riding bicycles, using public transport, marrying commoners and generally behaving like senior civil servants rather than anointed kings and queens...
Indeed, Helprin's purpose seems to be a very refined escapism, and he works as a conjurer, producing wonderful effects through his meticulous modus operendi. At the conclusion of "Tamar," a careful story in which a man recalls his infatuation with a young girl at a London dinner party in the '30s. Helprin eloquently adopts the manifesto of the fantasizer...
...book discovers a kind of happy ending. After many chastening trials of decline and near-demise, the Hearst organization has emerged with a sort of hard-won wisdom. Since 1975, the company has been intelligently run, and neglected properties like Cosmopolitan have beet rediscovered and made profitable. A modus vivend, with the ghost of Pop Hearst has finally beer achieved: concentrate on magazines with simple formulas, buy dailies in single-paper small cities, keep the family occupied in harmless jobs with impressive titles, and avoid stirring up the old snakes by trying to revive the big city dailies. In short...
...adequate range of choices. At this point in the program's development--almost half way--the professors who find themselves attracted to it are already teaching or planning Core courses. That means that to produce more courses, the Core subcommittees--on whose shoulders that responsibility rests--must alter their modus operandi...