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...know my way around state government. Its a busy place," said Thompson. "He's a talker and I'm a doer...
...object that looks ignominiously like the shining plastic cousin of a shoe. Designers have produced more streamlined models, but an essential ungainliness is inescapable. It results partly from the pressing of technology against anatomy. The technosmooth circuitry is pushed bizarrely against the old Darwinian skull. The talker's being comes unfocused from the visual immediate room and refocuses -- through the ear! -- elsewhere. The Here communes with There through sudden activations of breath, vocal cords, jawbone, tongue, lips, eyes, emotions. Through the thing held to the ear, we hear voices from another world. We would be amazed by this spectacle...
Fortunately, the principal was more of a talker than the hall monitor. I not only found out that the school had been around since 1860, but when I expressed my surprise that a Catholic girls' school should be sitting inthe middle of a strip of pubs, the office burst in to laughter, the principal informed me that there were 16 Catholic girls' schools in the area, and one girl said, "Catholic schools are always in the middle of a strip of pubs...
...find/Fish and fishing, motor boats/Railroads, streetcars, getting votes." Those are the words to the ditty dedicated to John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the grandfather of John F. Kennedy and the first in the family to have "the gift" for politics almost a century ago. Honey Fitz was a talker, a charmer, a politician who made it largely on the strength of his charisma. As the first mayor of Boston whose parents were born in Ireland, and the first Roman Catholic in the U.S. House of Representatives, Fitzgerald was noted for having developed "the Irish switch"--the art of shaking hands...
...Minute University" tenured the world's fastest talker to zip through lectures on 10 subjects key to any core curriculum. If the American mind is closed, Professor John Moschitta's curriculum will enlighten it in about as much time as it takes an automatic garage door to open and shut...