Word: personal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AGNEW TOO read a telegram that arrived in the White House last week after the President's Viet Nam speech. In earlier Administrations it might have seemed odd to tack on the name of the Vice President of the United States, who is traditionally almost an official non-person in Washington. Spiro Theodore Agnew, however, is turning the vice-presidency into something like an oratorical happening, raising the No. 2 office to a level of visibility and controversy unknown since the days of, well, Richard Nixon...
...think I'm a brain. I've got an I.Q. of about 135 when it was last tested. I think that's pretty fair." He has been known to remark unhappily: "I'm still fighting the idea of being a rather ill-equipped, fumbling, obtuse kind of person...
Passion for Privacy. Numerous parallels between Antoine and his creator have invited suggestions that this is a strongly autobiographical play. The last person likely to shed light on this question is Anouilh himself. At 59, looking like an aging bank clerk, with blank blue eyes behind silver-rimmed spectacles, he makes a fetish of privacy. It was three years before the world knew that he had divorced and remarried in 1953; his telephone numbers are unlisted and frequently change; and to keep his whereabouts secret, he shuttles back and forth between an apartment in Paris, a suburban house, a place...
...prosecutor had a point. Ohio law says that a man may be convicted of manslaughter if he commits an illegal act that could be "reasonably anticipated by an ordinarily prudent person" as likely to cause another's death. Even if Nosis did not strike Ripple, the prosecution argued at the trial, his threats and gestures amounted to an assault. Moreover, since Nosis knew about Ripple's heart condition, he could have reasonably anticipated that the threats were likely to result in death. Nosis was found guilty, and the Ohio Supreme Court has just upheld that verdict by refusing...
...brushed elbow patches with artists whose works he was to fake in years to come. Life was an amusement that ended abruptly with World War II. Totally apolitical, Elmyr was nevertheless shipped off to a Transylvanian concentration camp. "I was," he says with Magyar flair, "obviously too colorful a person for the safety of the state." He survived the Carpathian winter by painting the commandant's portrait-very slowly...