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...handful of posts, including Secretary of Education and Special Trade Representative. The new selections: Jeane Kirkpatrick, professor of government at Georgetown University, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Denver Lawyer James Watt, an advocate of oil and gas development of wilderness lands, as Secretary of the Interior; Samuel Pierce, a black attorney and labor mediator hi New York, as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Block, Illinois director of agriculture, as Secretary of Agriculture; and former South Carolina Governor James Edwards as Secretary of Energy. In addition, Reagan named Richard Allen to head the National Security Council...
...reading, among others, de Tocqueville's classic study, Democracy in America. His curriculum reads like a course of study in The Modern Western World: Bell's own Sociology 102, "Societal Analysis," Stanley Hoffmann's Government 185, "The United States in World Affairs," and Government 148, "American Political Development" with Samuel Huntington. A voracious reader with a native facility for the English language, Zhao has become an ardent student. Saturdays this term have been occupied with trips to Bell's house, for two-hour private seminars where the professor lectures and the two men discuss, among other things, Bell's conclusions...
...Samuel Johnson, who fathered the first English dictionary, set one peculiar standard by which contemporary dictionaries might still be judged. Johnson collected more than 100,000 words, mostly by memory, and his definition of "network" set a lofty and graceful standard in lexicographic science: "anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." The OAD effort has an admirable simplicity ("an arrangement or pattern with intersecting lines") and certainly surpasses the bulky Webster entry ("a fabric or structure of cords or wires that cross at regular intervals and are knotted or secured at the crossings") but neither...
Each play involves only two characters: a father and daughter. In Reunion,a married daughter meet with her middle-aged father for the first time in about 25 years. Without the poignant sensitivity Brown and Zito bring to their roles, even Mamet's extraordinary script and Samuel's tight directing would have no effect on an audience. From the first moment Brown walks on stage, she fills the room with tension and suppressed hatred, anger and deeply buried love. The utter awkwardness of her character's situation increases and emerges more clearly as the dialogue continues. Compulsively smoking, fidgeting with...
...audience, not a purgation but a punch to the jaw--is sabotaged by the presence on the same program of another work, The Berlin Requiem, which, as presented, is so starkly untheatrical that it makes you feel uncomfortable merely to be sitting in the theater. Hastily substituted for two Samuel Beckett pieces at a late date, The Berlin Requiem is a series of seven songs devoid of light, hope, and in the end life itself. It is a work of music, really, not theater at all. Weill's orchestration turns the woodwind section into a mock organ, coldly pealing...