Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...repeated in his current assignment as special representative for trade negotiations, where his formidable jawboning powers have maintained the momentum of discussions that could break down under the sheer weight of detail. Strauss says candidly of his new job: "This is a different kind of undertaking for me. The reason I've been good in Washington-if I have been good-is that I know all the nuances of this place. I move well around all the pitfalls because I know the terrain. Now I'm moving into an area where I don't know the terrain...
Qaboos is acutely aware that he needs Britain now more than ever, since Iran will no longer be acting as policeman of the Persian Gulf. For the same reason, he is anxious for the U.S. to play a more active role. "The Sultan is in the cockpit of conflict," says one of his British officers. "How he flies will determine the future of several kings, including King Khalid of Saudi Arabia. What he's done in nine years shows that he's got the hang of it. I'd wager when the time comes...
...turns out over a year would amount to a fair-size novel. In Baker's book-lined office on the tenth floor of the Times building, just off Times Square, is a photo of the Marx brothers. The inscription is by Groucho, and it reads, "You are the reason I read the New York Times...
Baker seemed comfortable with himself too a few weeks ago on Nantucket, though he had reason for discomfort. For a year or more he had worked on the script of an ill-fated play called Home Again, with music by Cy Coleman (On the Twentieth Century) and lyrics by Barbara Fried...
...Morrisonville, Va., a crossroads between Leesburg and Harpers Ferry. "It was primitive, no electricity," he says. His father Benjamin was a stonemason who died when Russell was five. The parallel with Thomas Wolfe, another lanky, literary Southerner whose father was a stonemason, is striking. Baker says for that reason he was unable to read Look Homeward, Angel until he was 45. "I heard those train whistles in the night, and they spoke of something else to me than the wonder of America." What they spoke of, he says, was trainmen out of work as the Depression deepened...