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Princeton-educated and a mod dresser by Administration standards, Flanigan plays tennis, skis and swims, often with his attractive wife Brigid and their five children. At home in fashionable Spring Valley Park in northwest Washington, he is considered pleasant by some of his neighbors, and humorless, autocratic and rude by others. On the job he is thoroughly hard-nosed, very much Richard Nixon's no-nonsense subaltern...
...sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed out with reprehensible etymology is "as in hermaphrodite...
...local mosquito-abatement district. By most measures of private wealth, the U.S. is the world's richest country. But in terms of its ability to pay for the public services?health care, education, welfare, garbage pickup, pollution control, police and fire protection?that make the life of its citizens pleasant, or at least tolerable, or in some cases even possible, the country seems almost to be going broke...
...only too justified. Americans, however, will have to get uised to the idea that a greater portion of the country's wealth must be devoted to the public sector if they are to enjoy clean air, safe streets and better health and education. Paying the bill cannot be made pleasant. By reflecting on the observation of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes that taxes are the price of civilization, it can perhaps be made at least tolerable...
...Sugar, has good legs, vacant eyes, an inability to read lines with any degree of zest, and limited vocal abilities. Tony Roberts plays Jerry, the guy who falls in love with her while impersonating a millionaire; although he tends to sound like a young Walter Mathau, he's a pleasant enough fellow and this whole experience shouldn't be too much of a drag on his career. On the other hand, Robert Morse--whom I find fey and distasteful to begin with--is here quite genuinely funny. His second-act burlesque of a young girl in love is the show...