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...long time and anyone who makes predictions right now has a brain full of sawdust, but expect a net gain in 1982, in which we will pick up control of the House." Edward Mahe, a former director of the Republican National Committee (RNC) told 15 students over supper at Leverett House as part of the Fellows' Roundtable discussion series...
...minimalist with language; his prose reduces events to small, discrete moments. He uses words less to evoke a scene than to catalogue it: "The sun was beaming through the pantry window into the kitchen; there was a block of yellow light on the wall above the table, set for supper with mismatched plates, glasses, a loaf of bread and a carton of milk. It was five-thirty...
...there looks up. He is of indeterminate age but clearly senior bearing. He smiles slightly, then turns down the volume of an old radio that is playing a familiar fragment from Mouret's Symphony and Fanfare for the King's Supper. He crosses his legs, letting the toe of his bench-made oxford dangle a little above the floor and occasionally-at moments of infrequent agitation-allowing it to graze the surface of the carpet underfoot...
...spent writing and revising an English-language manual for a new " TV-set model. Then at 4:45 p.m., he | and his colleagues stood and again sang the Matsushita song. That was not, however, the end of Saito's day. He returned to the cafeteria for a light supper of grilled fish and then walked upstairs to a 2½-hour English-conversation class. Saito returned home at 9 p.m., when he and Etsuko shared a snack, accompanied by a daily tot of two whisky-and-waters...
...knew about the assistant manager, my friend's father, was that he had cable TV and a Praise the Lord Club sticker on the back of his beat-up blue New Yorker. He and his family also owned a Woolworth's tapestry of DaVinci's "The Last Supper." The manager, who wore bell-bottoms over his brown patent-leather shoes, looked just like his picture on the "This is Your Super-Saver Manager" sign above the customer service desk, so everyone knew...