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Many of the delegates expected Washington's fellow Virginians to provide direction. In the absence of Jefferson, the state's intellectual leadership inevitably came from "Jemmy" Madison, who was to become "the Father of the Constitution." He was shy and soft-spoken, a slender bachelor about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, and, according to one account, "no bigger than a half a piece of soap." His father was a wealthy landowner (and slaveholder), and Madison never had to work for a living. He studied philosophy at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), became an early supporter of the Revolution...
...timing of Powell's resignation appeared to be dictated primarily by the approach of his 80th birthday on Sept. 19. The slender, bespectacled Virginian, who underwent surgery for prostate cancer in 1985, has continued his renowned six-day workweeks, with an occasional half day on Sunday, but apparently was afraid he would not be able to keep up the pace much longer. Said he, simply: "For me, age 80 suggests retirement...
...emblematic of this never-never year that the movies were upstaged not by stars like the newly slender Robert De Niro, the long-haired Mel Gibson or the wasp-waisted (and pathologically tardy) Elizabeth Taylor, but by that Ruritanian dazzler Princess Diana (called "Lay-dee Dee" by the French), escorted by her Prince. Yet even the royals could not dodge the toxic waft of melancholy. On the day of their visit, French TV announced the death of Rita Hayworth, whose signature film Gilda had played at Cannes' first postwar festival, in 1946. The news was a poignant reminder that...
...Harvard's history elders about loading the department with tenured people professing current, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute subjects. Surely, above all others, history departments have vocational cause to hesitate to overstock themselves with professors on tenure providing instruction in subjects, chic and modish today, but of slender interest tomorrow, who, given the rules of tenure, alas! cannot be remaindered at half price. Historians require that the subject of a course pass the test of time, and if they do not, they should. There is something perhaps a bit off-putting, but not actually wrong, about a department...
Last April the government kicked off a campaign to restructure the economy with the release of the Maekawa Report, a project prepared by 17 eminent Japanese. The slender canon warned that Japan must consume more and export less if it hopes to achieve greater "international harmony" with its trading partners. Shorter work hours and longer vacations were encouraged so that people would have more time to spend their money...