Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't know the mails could work so quickly, but four days later there was a reply in my mailbox. "Dear Mr. Ferguson," it read. "Thank you for your note about the possibility of a visit. Figure it out. There's only one of me and ten thousand of you. Please don't come. Sincerely, E.B. White." I dropped my plans for a trip to Maine...
Good job on Bush--the best I've read. For me, the key statement deals with his concern for former employees when he sold his company: he found jobs for all of them. How many candidates of either party would you trust to do the same? HERBERT NEUMAN Concord, Mass...
...think of MARIO PUZO this way: When I was younger, struggling for a sense of place in the world of letters, this older, wiser author of indisputable talent and success not only offered me steady encouragement but took the time to read my adolescent jottings. But that was Mario: that smile, those mischievous eyes, that wry humor--one part paisano and one part prince. He treated everyone, from studio chiefs to busboys, exactly the same--well, maybe busboys a little better...
...remember what it is we do and why people seem to fawn so easily. ("That's a Harvard student," I recall a mother telling her daughter one morning my first year as I rushed half-awake to breakfast. Her daughter wrote it down dutifully. It must have read like a field study: "Harvard student. Stubbly...
...Hillary Clinton a radiant beacon of freedom ?- or just another waffling Clinton? Depends on which New York tabloid you read. Like two Dobermans fighting over a juicy steak, the New York Post and the Daily News both plastered the First Lady all over their front pages on Friday, just as Mrs. Clinton was getting ready to suspend her "listening tour" of the Empire State and head back to Washington for the weekend. The liberal News put her face on the Statue of Liberty, gleefully noting that Hillary?s upcoming cover-girl party for about-to-be launched Talk magazine...