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...silver and ebony mace, an emblem of congressional authority, has been placed on its green marble pedestal behind the rostrum in the House of Representatives. Quill pens, symbolic links with a more genteel past, have been sharpened in the Senate, where they are available to any member. At high noon this Thursday, Jan. 19, Speaker Tip O'Neill in the House and Vice President Walter Mondale in the Senate will smartly rap their gavels on the polished desks before them. Thus will begin the second session of the 95th Congress, one of the boldest and balkiest in memory...
...good humor that jarred. He did not give a fig for the lines of high seriousness imposed by the hardcore New York art world. His reputation would look after itself; he would not tend it. Besides, Rauschenberg was a natural dissipater. The sight of him in his porcupine-quill leather jacket, erect but slightly, marinated with Jack Daniel's, cackling like a Texan loon and trying to get his arm around everyone at once, was too familiar...
...that would have been sought by a good reporter transplanted into the 18th century. As the research accumulated?a mountain of some 1,600 pages, over 50 percent more than the amount filed by our correspondents for a regular issue?a dozen writers were assigned to apply, figuratively, their quill pens. Scholarly judgment and historical guidance were provided by Robert A. Rutland of the University of Virginia, editor of the Madison papers...
...staring blank eye--it is like a childs [sic] marble--and said "My dear Virginia, they tell me--they tell me--they tell me--that you--as indeed being your fathers daughter nay your grandfathers grandchild--the descendent I may say of a century--of a century--of quill pens and ink--ink--ink pots, yes, yes, yes, they tell me--ahm m m--that you, that you write in short." This went on in the public street, while we all waited, as farmers wait for the hen to lay an egg--do they?--nervous, polite, and now on this...
Today, 7% of U.S. lawyers are women?an increase from 2.8% in 1972. Says one of them, Ann Quill Niederlander, 60, of St. Louis: "There is no question that women in the legal profession have made great strides. Women are now willing to go to women lawyers. We are finally making...