Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legitimacy on his father's identity; if his father did not exist, neither did he. So, he blindly trotted off to Harvard-Yale games with father, who rooted passionately, "as though he had a stake in its outcome." Duke even went so far as to buy English bulldogs to suggest his connection with Old Eli. Despite gaping holes in the Ivy League story--a friend once hailed Duke as a classmate from Penn in Geoffrey's earshot--Geoffrey "preferred this fabulous notion to the transparent reality." Children year for security above all and so "it never occurred to me that...
...dealing with the greatest single concentration of power over human lives," he said, adding, "We accept the notion that this is a commodity that is to be used for profit. I suggest that you reassess this assumption...
...rampant strikes most non-Catholic Americans as self-pityingly sensitive or at least inaccurate. Surely, they argue, the years since John Kennedy's election and Vatican II have all but cleansed that particular passage of the American subconscious. The hard evidence of American Catholic successes does not suggest that bigotry has closed the door of the dream. Catholics are Governors in twelve states-including the most populous (Jerry Brown's California, Hugh Carey's New York). Some 13 members of the U.S. Senate are Catholic, and 114 members of the House...
...wish to see and no movie they want to attend." Moreover, the court noted, production of television programs by the plaintiffs, Universal City Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of MCA Inc., and Walt Disney Productions, "is more profitable than it has ever been ... there was no concrete evidence to suggest that the Betamax will change the studios' financial picture." However, MCA, now beginning to market its own video discs, prerecorded shows also intended for the home screen, was worried about competition from VTRs...
...couple of aristocratic young backers, one named Binky and the other called Lord Nectarine of Walham Green. Their firm is called Sperm Productions, and the show that he is trying to produce is called Kiss It, Don't Hold It, It's Too Hot. The funny names suggest that we are in P.G. Wodehouse country. So does the buckety-buckety pace of the book, as Schultz careers from misfortune to disaster in his efforts to produce what is evidently going to be his fourth straight flop...