Word: thanked
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Speech-writers just don't get enough thanks for what they do. Bob Shrum, the , private wordsmith for the Kennedy family's public utterances, was called in to cobble together something for the convention's Kennedy reunion. He not only wrote John Kennedy Jr.'s introduction of Uncle Ted and Ted's it's-O.K.-to-still-be-a-liberal pep talk, but he also penned the Senator's gracious thank-you for his nephew's gracious introduction...
...sure enough. But all the commotion in country music right now is more than just a matter of numbers. Overall, its radio share has remained consistent during the past few years; it corners a mite above 10% of the national audience. And sales of records and tapes are fine, thank you: in 1987, country accounted for about 10% of the 5.6 billion musical dollars plunked down...
...used to blaming others, in particular the government, for shortages and other problems. Now, thank goodness, we have begun speaking not only of Stalin's personal guilt, but of the guilt of his entourage for crimes against the people. Let's be honest and admit that it was not only the ruling clique that was guilty, but the people as well, who allowed the clique to do whatever it wanted. Permitting crimes is a form of participating in them, and historically, we are used to permitting them. That is priterpelost. It is time to stop blaming everything on the bureaucracy...
...Hence, "thank God for the atom bomb," a phrase originally used by another appreciative combat veteran and writer, William Manchester, in his memoir of the Pacific war, Goodbye Darkness. As Fussell's title, T.G.A.B. is aimed at offending those who feel guilty about Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He does not. The dramatic end of the war was both "horrible and welcome." Tens of thousands died, but more than a million Allies and Japanese could have been casualties of an invasion campaign. Because he knows the terror and brutality of combat, Fussell draws a sacred line between the men who were...
...That's one thing I have to thank Harvard for doing," Anderson says. "I never did, and to this day I really don't, consider myself as any great singer. I just do what I like to do. It makes other people happy, and that makes me happy. But up until the time I came up here, I was still very insecure about the way I sang. I was in a group--we cut a record--and I hated singing lead...