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Great Challenge. The job as energy czar will be Schlesinger's fifth Government post in a career that has been spent mostly as a specialist in defense economics. A lifelong Republican-but one who nonetheless considers himself an apolitical technocrat-he joined the Nixon Administration in 1969 and served...
So when the Matchseller in A Slight Ache shuffles into the Adams House Upper Common Room like some Boston Common exhibitionist--wearing a Balaclava helmet, Wellington boots and a rumpled black raincoat--the menacing power of his silent radio presence is instantly precluded. The question of whether he really exists...
Calders have been artists for four generations-his great-great-grandfather, a funeral mason from Aberdeen in Scotland, helped carve the Albert Memorial in London before settling in Philadelphia in 1868. But Alexander Calder, looking at 78 like a rumpled dugong in a red flannel shirt, belongs to a hallowed...
Cinéma Verité. "I may not be the best adman in the country," says the rumpled, easy-mannered Rafshoon, "but I am the foremost authority on Jimmy Carter in terms of advertising and how it best suits him." The collaboration between the two goes back to 1966, when...
Moynihan's combination of scholarly pursuits and public service is almost without parallel in America today. Along with ground-breaking books on ethnicity (Beyond the Melting Pot, co-authored by Nathan Glazer) and the Great Society (Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding), he served as a White House Counsellor to Richard Nixon...