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White House Correspondents Fischer and Talbott have been just as busy following Ford from coast to coast. The logistics of the schedule, Fischer finds, can present peculiar problems, like having to surrender his luggage the night before an early-morning flight. Says he: "Sometimes I end up having to carry a toothbrush, razor and shaving cream in my raincoat pocket." Holder of a master's degree in history from the University of Chicago, Fischer has covered three presidential campaigns and feels that this one is "far and away the most interesting because of the uncertainty." Despite the pace...
Kaufman and Ferber have embodied--but never too seriously--this peculiar blend of love and commitment in the figure of the late Aubrey Cavendish, the patriarch of this royal family of the theater, whose portrait hangs high on the wall in the Cavendish living room. The great Aubrey Cavendish never quit. He allowed himself time off from his work only once in his life, after finishing the last performance of his last tour, which was ending that night. He did all four curtain calls and only when the curtain had dropped for the last time did he allow himself...
...Nobel committee cited Friedman for "independence and brilliance" as an economic thinker, and there, certainly, other economists would agree. In some ways, it was a peculiar award to come out of Stockholm, the capital of the West's most thoroughgoing welfare state. Politically, Friedman is the most conservative American economist of note today. In economic policy, he is committed to laissez-faire, free-market solutions. He has, in fact, not had-or sought-much influence even in the Republican-occupied White House since August 1971, when Richard Nixon announced a pay-price freeze to fight the Viet...
Most of the paintings have been horribly scratched by graffiti artists. Not all of them are twentieth century pranksters. Some were Byzantines themselves, airing their peeves about monastic life. This ancient writing, in fact, is of particular interest to Byzantine scholars for the peculiar contractions and, occasionally, outright slang that it employs...
...women merely want to participate in this world that we had no share in making. Don't we need to gain the space to look around and decide what things look like to us? Since reality is primarily a male construct, the female student is put in a peculiar position. She can either ignore the potential difference between the prevailing view and what she might see if she had a chance to look, and busily learn the accepted view of reality, or she can become interested in that potential for difference, inquire more deeply into her female roots and history...