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...Pleasant weather is only part of the attraction. There is a collective sense that to design for Americans requires understanding them viscerally, and a belief that Los Angeles is not just the wellspring of car culture but as close to Ur-America as any one place gets. More prosaically, Southern California represents the biggest automobile showroom anywhere: every year 3% of all new cars on the planet are registered in California, and most of those in Southern California. If you're to succeed in the U.S., you must sell in Southern California. And to do that, observes Peter Fischer...
...books later, Mayle is something of a publishing phenomenon. Toujours Provence (Knopf; $20), his second collection of essays, is climbing the best- seller lists. The success story began two years ago with the British publication of A Year in Provence. The hardback edition at first received a mild, pleasant response, but never underestimate favorable word of mouth. In paperback the book was No. 1 on the charts for 60 weeks, and Mayle's plumber, mason and the rest of the artisans became popular heroes. In the U.S. the paperback has just appeared, and the publisher is rushing extra printings...
...What we have in common, first, is a splendid continent full of natural resources. Then we have a history of a network of relations among us. Those have been unpleasant as well as pleasant, but unhappy memories too can be a source of unity. We have the Constitution and Bill of Rights. We have a future in common, which means a great deal. And we have denim jeans. That's a shared loyalty, from the Indians to the yuppies. As for the teaching of history, you have a choice for your children. You can tell them the truth about their...
Despite sitting out his senior year, Callahan's Harvard football experience was an extremely positive one. He has the pleasant memory of the Crimson's unlikely 37-20 victory over Yale in 1989, which robbed the Elis of the outright Ivy title. And most of all, Callahan had the great distinction of being elected by his teammates as the Crimson's leader...
...mother insisted on it. After I got in, I didn't go to any of the events planned for prospective students. When I visited Harvard I didn't go to a single class; I simply made my decision based on the opinion that Cambridge was a more exciting and pleasant place to live than New Haven or Princeton. And I didn't want to merely follow in the footsteps of my brother and sister, who went to Yale and Princeton, respectively...