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...McPhee has also tangled with long, discursive pieces about the higher levels of tennis, the craft of bark canoe builders, missing links in the technology of nuclear waste disposal. McPhee is an adventurer of information, a stickler for the facts. He has written a book about oranges, a most studious and exacting survey that would do justice to Montaigne in its recognition of fundamental cravings. Typically, McPhee works from the sidelines, bending his style to any angle or knot that might suit his subject: in one piece, the raging differences between conservationists and the Federal government are tightly defined when...
...David R. Ignatius '72 now works for the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street fuckin' Journal. He used to write about Revolution with a capital R which stood for Right Now and Right here in River City. It was the day after a Chicago jury, under the studious supervision of Judge Julius Hoffman, found five of the remaining Chicago 7 guilty--Seale had already been bound, gagged, hit with contempt of court and severed from the case. The Day After--TDA, for short--15,000 angry protesters gathered in Government Center and about a third of them marched down Tremont...
...arrives, grave, studious and one heck of a soccer player. Bob feels stirrings of pride; the situation severely strains Sheila's extraordinary generosity. Jean-Claude is the sort of irritant around which pearls are formed. Still, when the Beckwith girls get wind of the truth, Sheila insists that the boy must go. There is the inevitable life-threatening situation and a conclusion with the distinctive aftertaste of artificial sweeteners...
Born in 1923 in Hannibal, Mo. to a first-generation Italian immigrant, Ussia returned to Italy at the age of ten to receive an Italian education. He learned philosophy, literature, geography and history by studying the classics. There he says he adopted the "contemplative, studious, and intellectual qualities of southern Italians...
Laskey Bell was studious, quite; his father jeeringly called him a "clerk," and that's what he became--a clerk in the Osborne Lumber Company, jeered at there by his boss Eddie Osborne because he blushed at the racy calendars Osborne hung on the wall of the office they both shared. Thirty years later, when Osborne came to him for a loan that would enable him to move into the expanding natural gas industry of the Kanawha Valley with the promise of a full partnership, Laskey Bell set a further condition--he wanted Osborne's daughter's hand in marriage...