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...their considerable eminence and persuasiveness and not by opposition, to influence Johnson in a candid discussion. This hope need not have been a futile one; it was certainly a long shot, but well worth trying. I suspect that they themselves offered to seal their own lips for its sake. And then came the leak...
...also, though in our late 30s, still find ourselves constantly rejecting offers of "other ways to make money"-such as editing. But the main point is, I think, that most of us still like to approach writing -whether for magazines or books or newspaper supplements-more for the sake of expression than income, more in search of truth than rewards; and we are not so much caught up in "an American dream" as still seeking ways to resolve the American nightmares...
There is nothing really gay about his deceiver. As played by Ugo Tojnazzi, he is a victim of his own capacity for compassion; it saddens him that all three of his families cannot be unit-id-not for convenience' sake, but for love. Instead of heaving a sigh of relief when Marisa leaves him to go home, Sergio pursues her-and gets beaten up in rescuing her from her angry peasant family. Though his premiums are soaring, he insists on taking out equal insurance policies for all three women. To make ends meet, he begins moonlighting as a jazz...
...sake of drama or publicity, numbers are slapped on nearly everything-and the bigger the number the better. During July's two-day rail strike, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry issued an instant statistic that the city was losing $40 million to $60 million a day, into which total were cranked lost railroad fares and freight revenues, reduced restaurant and hotel receipts, smaller store sales, and presumably the money that visiting butter-and-egg conventioneers or traveling salesmen might spend on tours and girls. Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway...
...news smote him mightily, but discretion seemed the better part of valor. Not until his mother died did he for sake Marion and move into the fine house that he had bought in St. John's Wood for Bambi and their son Mark...