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...body images, authoritarian personalities, high status drive, distrust of others, disregard for others' viewpoints, a tendency to blame others and a resistance to blaming themselves. One might ask, however, whether living longer is worth the price of becoming such a person. Lieberman, who describes himself as an increasingly "tender and passive person," questions it, but then he is still only...
Bork says that he agreed to fire Cox, after Elliot Richardson and his former deputy William Ruckelshaus refused, because "I believe a President has the right to discharge any member of the Executive branch." At first he thought that he should tender his own resignation after carrying out the order, as proof that he was not merely clearing his own way to a better job. Richardson urged Bork to stay on "to keep the department running," but Bork has made it plain that he has no desire to make his arrangement permanent. The post no longer looks inviting "after...
...young Pablo grew up with music. He was playing the piano at four, the violin at seven, the organ at nine. At eleven he heard a cello for the first time when a traveling trio visited Vendrell. "I felt as if I could not breathe. There was something so tender, beautiful and human about the sound. A radiance filled...
...Eban and borrowed by Mr. John Scali [U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.], was a good thing. [The U.S. cast a veto against the Arabs at that session.] Our intentions are not to occupy Israeli territory or to drive Israel into the sea. We say this not out of any tender love for Israel but because we understand the political reality. We have no policy for Israel's annihilation...
...HOUSE. Joseph Losey's version of the Ibsen classic is frosty and severe, embellished with several clumsy contemporary asides about the injustices heaped on women. It has the vigor and passion of commitment, however, and the cast is superb. Trevor Howard's Dr. Rank is gruffly tender; Delphine Seyrig's Kristine, a woman of tentative but dependable dignity; and Edward Fox's Krogstad, a figure of understandable desperation. David Warner makes Torvald into a complex, insidious but always human figure. It is a performance of the foremost skill and intelligence, and includes a quick moment-when...