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...that "it is a truly wonderful gift, my natural and trained gift for dialogue." When one of his plays is panned on Broadway, he retorts: "It cannot be anything but personal. No one in their sane senses could say the lyrics and music of The Girl Who Came to Supper were not good. They are good. Very good indeed...
...breathtaking spectacle. Earlier in the day, I had been fly-fishing for cutthroat trout in the nearby Snake River. Late in the afternoon, Amy and I had picked wild huckleberries in a grove of quaking aspen near the cabin, and we all enjoyed a delicious berry pie for supper. Although it was not cold, Rosalynn and I built a small fire just to watch the flames in the open fireplace. It had been one of those special days...
...After supper that first night, Begin and I met alone in my cabin. We always used a tiny private office down the hall from the main living room. It hardly seemed suitable for such important talks, but its seclusion, easy access from the cottages occupied by Begin and Sadat, and good view looking south down the mountainside made it seem right. I told Begin that I reserved the right, and had the duty, to put forward compromise proposals, and might on occasion merely adopt either side's position if I believed it to be best. I assured him that...
...even quite football weather yet, the National Football League strike still seems as much a novelty as a catastrophe. Without baseball, summer might as well be canceled; lazy days depend on it. But doesn't pro football occupy only a narrow space, somewhere between church services and Sunday supper, in the fabric of American life? Then why has the country been on red alert since last Tuesday? If the owners can afford to lose $38 million a week, and the players $7 million, quarreling over control of the game, who cares, except a few bookies, broadcasters and bankers, unless...
...President," Powers recalls, "said to me at one point, 'Dave, you are eating that chicken and drinking that wine like it's your last supper.' I told him, 'Mr. President, I'm not sure that it's not.' It was difficult to have hope, even though we had faith in the President...