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Where did the missionary impulse come from? David Treadup's heritage was somewhat ambiguous as it bore on his calling. On his mother's side: a line of New England divines, shrewd petty manufacturers, and farmers... On his father's: the vigor, tough athleticism, self-sufficiency, and forest raptures of the trapper's life ... and an almost mute religiosity, having to do with the suspected presence of the eye of God in the tops of trees and in the mysterious depths of trout pools... On both sides: strong fiber, ample courage, a constant uneasy dialogue with ancient values, and outcroppings...
...name missionaries have been given in popular American lore was at least partly earned for all of them by those who were barren-minded the devotees and bigots, who were often immensely shrewd but were seldom immensely intelligent. How could a Protestant God have stone shed such stupid enthusiasts?" David once burst out in his diary, after a brush with a pair of narrow fundamentalists...
...barons of the 19th century. Gorbachev is not going to be a fastball pitcher. He'll throw curves, knuckleballs and spitters if he can get away with them. Of course, Ronald Reagan has played a pitcher too, in that movie The Winning Team, and he's also a very shrewd political leader. So you've got two pretty good pitchers going against each other. The question is Which side...
DIED. Angelo Donghia, 50, American interior decorator whose contemporary design innovations, including severe upholstery on plumply overstuffed furniture, shiny lacquered walls and unusual combinations of fabric textures and patterns, became widely popular through shrewd marketing arrangements for products carrying his name; of pneumonia; in New York City. The first U.S. home-furnishings designer to endorse a line of sheets, in 1973, Donghia went on to promote his own decorating fabrics, furniture, china and glassware. His Manhattan office, which he called "gray flannel heaven" for its trademark men's suiting wall covering, welcomed such famous clients as Diana Ross, Ralph Lauren...
...pleading against both neo-isolationists who believe the U.S. has no stake beyond self-defense and confrontational rightists who see a Soviet hand guiding every local upheaval in the Third World. To Nixon, Viet Nam was "a just cause," and its lesson should not be abstention from involvement but shrewd selectivity in defining national interest followed by fierce determination to do what is needed to win. Says Nixon: " 'No more Vietnams' can mean we will not try again. It should mean we will not fail again...