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...meeting held “early in 1909,” each member of the Corporation was asked to mention “a name he had heard advocated, or which he cared to mention.” That request elicited 24 names, which Greene wrote down in pencil on three small sheets on paper. Greene included these papers—which he called “memorandum”—in his letter to the library...
...most entertaining work of philosophy--piled on plot curlicues like the toppings on an oversize novelty sundae. Maddening as its mystery could be (O.K., so the smoke monster was set up by the Others who live by the four-toed statue and--hang on, let me grab a pencil ...), great writing, tantalizing details and ever richer characters made it a yarn worth getting more deeply entangled...
...learned to exercise control.“Believe it or not,” Guest says, “these people are professionals.”Professionals who like to act like idiots, that is. “We find that it’s funnier to be the pencil in the drawer that doesn’t quite have a point than it is to be the sharp pencil. It’s not much fun playing smart people,” said Levy. “There’s no movie if everyone is competent...
...most powerful images in the collection, however, is open for public viewing on the main floor. At the end of a hallway next to a few offices hangs a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr., done entirely in harsh, angry pencil lines. King looks almost tired and weary in this unusual portrait, perhaps an extrapolation of his mental state towards the end of his life...
...real test will be how all six parties react once the talks resume - assuming, of course, the talks really do resume this year. (It's best to mark your calendar in pencil when you're dealing with North Korea.) U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer told a group of reporters earlier this month that North Korea simply returning to the talks wouldn't be enough for the U.S. to relax sanctions - a position Hill reiterated in Beijing...