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...Samuel Johnson, who mixed gratitude with friendship, defended a benefactor, Henry Hervey, a reprobate despised by everyone else, including Hervey's father. "If you call a dog Hervey," said Johnson to Boswell, "I shall love him." Boswell himself, though no monster, could get on Johnson's nerves, yet Johnson loved him too. His friendship for Boswell was probably based on the need for attentive company, as was Boswell's for him on the need for the approval of an elder. Such friendships between unequals are precarious, but so are all friendships. Passion cools, pleasure fades, pity...
...spoken of the Civil War as the nation's economic breaking point, the moment when, as Charles and Mary Beard argued 50 years ago, the urban industrial North seized power from the agrarian South in a "second American revolution." Through cliometrics, says the University of Pittsburgh's Samuel Hays, historians have analyzed such production figures as railroad mileage and steel output, and found that the "takeoff points" occurred earlier, in the 1840s and early '50s. Cliometricians also use voting data to learn, say, the cultural differences between Republicans and Democrats. (Ethnic and religious divisions turn...
...Security Council last week began debate on a Pakistan-sponsored resolution condemning Israeli efforts to annex East Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Begin assured U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis that the controversial transfer of his office to East Jerusalem was not imminent, although it would probably take place in the near future. Having committed himself to the move, Begin felt he could not reverse himself without losing face. That argument is flawed. Moving the Prime Minister's office to the predominantly Arab sector of Jerusalem could result only in the further, unnecessary isolation of Israel from its dwindling band of supporters...
...Gates Rubber Co. Two years before he died of leukemia in 1978 at age 75, Lear started a new firm, LearAvia, in Reno, to manufacture a turboprop corporate jet that he had designed. On his deathbed, Lear asked his wife Moya, now 65, and Company President Samuel Auld, 55, to use the proceeds from his estimated $100 million estate to complete work on the Lear...
...that way? Up, up! Higher!"? Or the virtuoso who appeared onstage with the Orchestre National de France and the Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, the rosette of the Légion d'Honneur pinned in his lapel, and tossed off the feat of playing 15 major works, from Mozart to Samuel Barber, during a sequence of eight concerts...