Word: praiseed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ivan's problems with Gloria have an effect on his professional life as well. Obsessed with trying to get her back, he finds himself unable to finish his latest play, in spite of his director's demands for revision. It is this aspect of the plot--Ivan's gradual realization...
Much of the praise for Shultz emphasizes the contrast between his style and that of his predecessor. "He's exactly the opposite type of personality from Alexander Haig," says an ex-official at Treasury. Adds former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "He's an unflamboyant person. He doesn'...
You will not find anyone in the field who has anything but praise forBond. who himself struggles valiantly for modesty when describing the institution he is leaving. He readily accepts a request for a tour,describing the series of upper floor display rooms which even diehard scholars reading downstairs rarely...
Even further removed from aesthetic or social sense is Mailer's assay of Henry Miller. More than 40 years ago, when it was bold to praise Tropic of Cancer, George Orwell wrote that Miller's value lay in his very ordinariness: " 'The average sensual man' has...
DIED. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr., 60, audacious faker and inspiration for the 1960 movie The Great Impostor; of a heart attack; in Anaheim, Calif. Although he never finished high school, Demara successfully masqueraded as a Trappist monk, college philosophy teacher, cancer researcher, deputy prison warden and Canadian naval surgeon aboard...