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Dole has strong personal ties to the Administration through his wife Elizabeth, who is Transportation Secretary, and a record of support for Reagan's policies. But he has not shied away from strong criticism, particularly on tax and budget matters. Last week Dole said he would put a higher...
Behind this austere facade, Ackroyd finds a tormented and divided soul. Eliot shied away from attention while courting it with Machiavellian skills. Ezra Pound, another American expatriate, aptly nicknamed him "Old Possum." Pound had tried and failed to take over literary London through energy and bravado; Eliot succeeded through diffidence...
Rich and Green apparently remain ensconced in their modern, blue-glass headquarters in the lakeside town of Zug (pop. 22,000). There the pair are regarded by some natives as folk heroes rather than accused felons. But it will take a long time to rebuild Marc Rich's globe...
The committee, which shied away from holding formal hearings, raised more questions than it resolved. "The subcommittee believes that it has received responses from some of these persons that were not candid," its 2,313-page report said. "This prevented it from fully resolving the briefing-book issue." In a...
It is a shame that Trevor has declined an excellent opportunity to chronicle one writer's Ireland, that he has shied away from the unabashedly personal and biased tour of Irish writers which this might have been. A journey such as this one, through the uneven evolution of Irish literature...