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...certain that it can keep checks rolling out to 36 million Americans between 1983 and '89. Or so the eight Republicans and seven Democrats who make up the National Commission on Social Security Reform agreed last week, in a public meeting for once refreshingly free of partisan rancor...
...reasons for doing so are painfully clear: he had become a drunk and a philanderer with a "need to live in turbulence." But the author's account of this period is totally without rancor. There was plenty of pain for husband and wife, but also a parade of fascinating people. Randall Jarrell visited, slim, elegantly dressed, talking like a hillbilly; he twanged out such expressions as "Gol-ly!" and "Ba-by Doll!" Blackmur's wife Helen kept Princeton abuzz with gossip because she so openly scorned the role of faculty wife. When her husband told her that...
...Rancor of all kinds was thick before the final. Then the game began, and the rancor melted. The real surprise was not how stirring every minute of the game was, but how appealing every participant in it seemed, even the coaches. "I was outcoached tonight," Smith tried to say in victory afterward, but Thompson wouldn't let him. "That man's forgotten more basketball than I know...
Wealth is not without its burdens, Kahn notes. In the same paragraph he reports that Jock had thrifty sets of golf-clubs and a servant to switch channels on his television set. Although no one bore him "jealousy or rancor," his wealth isolated him from other men. Kahn claims. But Kahn describes Whitney's social schedule as hectic and emphasizes that Jock drew friends from many walks of life. He had "a great emotional need to feel useful." Philanthropy filled the need but it raised the problem of where to send the checks. Yale or Groton...
...visitor who came to Cancún bearing good will but no concessions, Reagan, or at least his advisers, fully expected some nasty condemnations by the more outspoken of the Third World leaders present. But few hisses were heard. Not only were the formal sessions remarkably free of rancor, but the summit gave Reagan a chance to hold surprisingly friendly chats with many of the leaders. "None of them were hostile," said one top White House aide. "They appreciated that Reagan was willing to come down to discuss these questions...