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A great speech? No. Carter still did not inspire the degree of confidence, hope and enthusiasm of which he spoke. But for this President, and for this occasion, it was far from bad.
The most hostile incident, and the one that may well have roused Sadat's ire beyond control, occurred at a dinner given by Begin for his Egyptian and American guests. Both the Israelis and the Egytians had privately agreed in advance that they would leave polemics aside for this occasion...
Her books have outlasted other possessions. The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949) are the novels for which she was best known, but Glendinning offers useful glosses on others as well. With varying success, Bowen constantly attacked a single problem: the effect of innocence...
"Knowing the median verbal aptitude of our students, I'm sure they will coin a slogan befitting the significance of the occasion," Horner said yesterday.
In marked physical contrast to Kingman Brewster, his elegant and patrician predecessor, Giamatti is a chubby, shortish man, much given to wearing rumpled slacks and sports jackets topped on occasion by a Boston Red Sox cap. He is a baseball nut who recently explained that he never wanted to be...