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Charles is attracted to certain strains of New Age thinking. He longs to combine pragmatism with compassion. He is an admirer of the "small is beautiful" philosophy of the British economist E.F. Schumacher, and is a patron of a charity that Schumacher started to help Third World nations develop simple industrial and agricultural tools. As president of the British Medical Association during 1982, he stressed the need for what he calls "complementary medicine"--that is, "looking at a person not so much as a machine, but as the whole, in a classic, ancient sense." Charles is drawn to asceticism...
Sears is especially funny as the Bumiller siblings, a trio of screwed up adolescents whose main problem is boredom; there's Stanley, the reform school dropout, Jody, patron of the stray-puppy population, and their overweight sister Charlene, who's life is ruined because she'll never make cheerleader. The two-man show offers up some great lines, like when Mrs. Bumiller tries to offer the usual motherly consolation "wait until next year" to her depressed daughter, and Charlene points out that she's already a senior. The duo earned their three ovations opening night with their flawless...
...evening, for instance, a woman approached Father Too's Kelly and handed him a Catholic baptismal certificate. She was obviously 21 years old, she claimed, because good Catholics don't lie. She was turned away. Another example: a young Black patron tried to get past Mark at Nine Lansdowne by presenting a photo identification of an middle-aged white male...
...Field Hockey, J.V. I acrosse, Jimmy Fund, Committee. "An Evening with Champions". Chairman Patron and Sponsor Committee, Volunteer at Mass. General. Pediatric Ward...
...April 1964, Ford introduced the Mustang. It is difficult to overstate the attendant hoopla. The car and its principal corporate patron, Lee Iacocca, appeared on the cover of both TIME and Newsweek. Iacocca, TIME declared, "is the hottest young man in Detroit," brilliant, an "ingenious automotive merchandising expert." Twenty-one years later, a metal sculpture of a Mustang hangs over Iacocca's desk at Chrysler, and a 1964 Mustang convertible, a gift from his wife in 1981, sits in his garage in suburban Detroit. "I'm generally seen as the father of the Mustang," he says in his book...