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There are other reasons why Reagan frequently does not hear straight arguments from his aides. An avuncular figure, warm and generous to a fault, Reagan projects a peculiar quality of vulnerability. The White House staff and Cabinet members worry deeply when they have to tell the boss he is in trouble. One aide fretted for hours about the glum presentation that he was to make at one budget session. "I finally said the hell with it," he reports. "I decided if I couldn't tell it to him straight, I shouldn't be working here." Reagan was not visibly affected...
...tastes who spends days alone in meditation on the desert, when he is not threatening to blow up the world. What Indira Gandhi does for fun is not generally known. As for the absent Idi Amin, his pastimes were said to run to the wild side, what with his peculiar way of making enemies an internal issue. Amin has been known to show a light heart, however, and has played the accordion at dances. It would be a sad end to so carefree a hobby if Amin were now discovered because someone happened to overhear Lady of Spain. Still...
...immediate uproar over the potentially damaging allegations masked a broader and more complicated ongoing dispute between the University and government authorities over the proper approach to handling federal grants. The dispute--which is by no means peculiar to Harvard--may eventually prove harmful to the whole relationship between the University and the government, high-ranking financial officials fear...
Mockery was only the Orthodox rabbis denounced da's peculiar obsession as a defilement of the language of Scripture. Some fanatics who heard young Ben-Zion talking to his dog in Hebrew seized the dog and killed it. There were other kinds of opposition as well. Immigrants who had been nurtured in Yiddish clung emotionally to the language of the Diaspora. Even Zionist Leader Theodor Herzl rejected Ben-Yehuda's campaign as impractical...
...They give an impression of preconscious liveliness-nature on the march. Their aura gets a little more sinister in a large carving, Femme-Maison '81, done in black marble: a waving cluster of long tubular shapes, frondlike rather than phallic, rustling and jostling against one another with a peculiar, irresistible energy, that rear up around a plateau on which reposes a small schematically carved shed...