Word: philosophyâ
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...lilt: "The industrial user's tax is d-a-i-d, dead." Yet when the measure came to a vote, the wily Long did not thwart the drive to make it 1-i-v-e, live. In exchange, he won Senate agreement on the key feature of his energy philosophy???rebating the bulk of $40 billion in taxes to the gas and oil industry...
Javits' knowledgeable, purposive mien wins him the respect of many who abhor his philosophy???and generous support from those who share it. To raise funds for his 1962 campaign, 20 luncheons were held at New York's 21 Club, each for 24 persons. If the tab was high, the take was higher: $250,000 from the 480 guests. His financial backers are a wildly diverse group?thanks in part to Marion's standing in artistic-intellectual-entertainment circles. They have comprised a mint of Rockefellers, a socko of showbiz moguls from MCA's Jules Stein to the late Billy Rose...
...line across which the cooks dare not tread but over which they pasa nicely browned sausages or still-warm tarts to the loungers in the billiard department?in this delectable tavern foregather Michael Webb and claimants to culture. Their discursive and argumentative flights?hodgepodge of raillery and provocative philosophy???are the substance of the book. Three or four years pass unobtrusively, disconnectedly, and the book ends as it progressed, inconspicuously yet without any sense of incompleteness, for a romance has culminated in a formal wedding with a formal clergyman and a very formal church...
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