Word: singular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...served as Chancellor of the Exchequer, deputy party leader and president of the European Commission, Williams has some disadvantages. Although celebrated for her eloquence, sincerity and thoughtfulness, critics fault her for a reluctance to make tough decisions and for her helter-skelter ways. But she has one singular advantage over Jenkins. Before the leadership decision is made late next year, he will have to win a seat in Parliament. Jenkins, the first to run under the new S.D.P. banner, narrowly lost a by-election in Warrington last July to a Laborite...
Turning up in the right place at the right time and sounding out those who make the news is a fundamental part of journalism's mandate. For 16 days last month TIME met that mandate in singular fashion as it escorted 32 top U.S. businessmen and leaders on a Newstour of Eastern Europe and the Persian Gulf. From a lunch in Warsaw with General Wojciech Jaruzelski, just after he had been named the head of Poland's Communist Party, to an hour-long question-and-answer session with Egypt's new President Hosni Mubarak, the Newstour...
What seems to have happened this time, as it does so often in Washington, is that the actors in this singular drama became too entwined in their intricate maneuvers. A distorted picture was produced of both the battle being waged and the state of mind of the nation waiting in the background. Almost anyone traveling this country the past few weeks could have detected that there were far more important problems on the national agenda than the AWACS sale. A great many people surely favored letting the President try to do his job. and, since we get nearly...
...almost always a mistake for readers to confuse the first person singular with the novelist. Almost. Conan Doyle was not John H. Watson, M.D. Samuel Clemens was not Huckleberry Finn. And Raymond Chandler was not Philip Marlowe. But, as his letters reveal, no author ever verged closer to his creation...
...that paragraph are the seeds and the secrets of a career. With only seven novels, Raymond Chandler became one of the most influential writers in American literature, and literature is what he wrote. This selective volume of his correspondence is a revelation of that singular, conflicted talent. Who touches this book touches a detective...