Word: samuels
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...Nothing, Samuel Johnson once remarked, so concentrates a man's mind as the knowledge that he is to be hanged in a fortnight. In the Middle East, the approach of a peace conference has the same effect. As Secretary of State James Baker took off last weekend for what he called his final swing to nail down arrangements for the gathering that will at last bring Arabs and Israelis face to face, those two sides were anxiously bumping and jostling each other...
...would want to make a judgement as to whether the public association of the donor to the school would be detrimental in terms of its reputation, ethics and its effect on other potential donors," said Samuel F. Babbitt, senior vice-president at Brown University and director of the school's current capital campaign...
Despite the desertions and a plunge in stock price of more than a third since the scandal broke, few are counting Solly out. The firm still maintains substantial resources and a loyal following. Says Samuel Hayes III, a finance professor at Harvard University: "Salomon will emerge from this episode, bloodied and bruised, but just as potent a force on Wall Street...
...much social policy revolves around sex and its consequences. Are America's Christians (still more than 85% of the population, according to a recent survey) going to order their erotic lives by rules and their inevitable accompaniment, guilt? Are they going to order their erotic lives at all? Samuel Johnson once contrasted preachers who deplored intoxication because it "debases reason, the noblest faculty of man," with preachers who warned drinkers that "they may die in a fit of drunkenness." (Johnson preferred the preachers who did not mince words.) If America gets a generation of preachers who boost sex because...
...Samuel Johnson should be living at this hour; the English language has need of him. Though he was never at a loss for words, the great lexicographical drudge would probably be confounded to read the new Random House Webster's College Dictionary. It is bugled as "the New Definition of Dictionary," the "newest, biggest and best...