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...news conference. Carter told the reporters that he could not give full details of his proposal to reform taxes by eliminating most deductions and taxing "all income the same" until after he was in the White House. Later, as Carter settled into his car, Press Secretary Jody Powell thrust his head through the window. Said he: "I think you made a mistake. In the past, you've said you would fill in the details of your tax proposal after the convention, not after you were in the White House." Replied Carter: "That's right. I'll give...
...father was a fiercely authoritarian Roman Catholic, an amateur painter who taught in a school for deaf-mutes in the Rhineland town of Brühl. Little Max briefly persuaded this eccentric sire that he was the child Jesus. Memories of this sort underlie Ernst's most notorious thrust of anticlerical wit, a spanking Madonna entitled The Blessed Virgin Chastises the Infant Jesus Before Three Witnesses (1926). When his baby sister was born and his favorite bird, a pink cockatoo, died on the same day in 1906, a whole sequence of bird fantasies was set in train. Generally they...
...Economics department has said that Gummerson's Marxist concerns are "peripheral" to the "thrust" of the department, but it also cites his teaching and publishing as deficiencies justifying the tenure decision...
...Peripheral Thrust...
Roger Van Tassel, chairman of the Economics Department, last year wrote that Gummerson's interests were "peripheral" to the "thrust" of the department, but he also cited alleged deficiencies in Gummerson's teaching and writing as grounds for the tenure decision...