Word: roarke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HELEN WILLS MOODY (ROARK), 92, imperturbable tennis ace; in Carmel, Calif. Her trademark white eyeshade set an enduring fashion trend, but there was nothing frivolous about Little Miss Poker Face, as she was known. She stood her ground like a tank, drilling out bullet serves and powerful baseline drives. Her casualties were legion: she won 31 major championships, including eight at Wimbledon, and her frequent rival Helen Jacobs was dubbed "Helen the Second...
...though you shrug that off. That's O.K. But if you should become an artist, ignore the critics. Some precious few critics have an artist in them, but most are a desperate, shriveled lot who have found a way to touch art without making it. The half-nuts architect Roark in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is confronted by the critic who tried to destroy him. "Why don't you tell me what you think of me," says the critic. To which Roark responds, "I don't think...
...went to Emory on a scholarship, intending to switch to academic life for good because he had decided that politics was unstable as a career. His dissertation, on the early history of church-related colleges, is still remembered. "It was a first-rate piece of work," says Professor James Roark, "but I'm not sure Ralph would want it published today." The paper criticized some sectarian schools for trading off their religious heritage in exchange for endowments. In fact, Reed is proud of its argument: that traditional Christian values -- as born-again conservatives define them -- deserve to be protected...