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...apartment building's owner, George Rothman of Newton, said yesterday, "I don't understand these people who want to preserve the building. It's in deplorable condition, looks like a sore thumb and putting in a more modernistic building would enhance the neighborhood's value...
...Well, around here, a man's handshake is his bond. And you never see a full grown man offerin up his thumb like 'at to another. Nossir...
...sometimes, the people that smile at you are lyin. A man's handshake's his bond. Like his word. I tell you, you know that no member of the Klan shakes with his thumb. Not a single one. You know why there's a Klan? It's so men will remember how to be men. Sometimes people forget how. I'm a member of the Klan. Let me show you something." He took a picture out of his wallet of his wife and daughters. He meant it as a proof that he hadn't been fooling about being much else...
...children-and their parents too-respond quickly to the lively decor of the radiology department. But it is Brodeur's magic that enables him to distract even the most fearful child. He pulls a string of brightly colored handkerchiefs out of an apparently empty fist, or makes his thumb disappear. Then, having coaxed a child into smiling, Brodeur rewards him; he whips red and black felt-tipped marking pens out of a pocket and draws a tiny ladybug on the patient's forearm...
...probably least appreciated people on all the earth." As for Watergate: "You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at ... They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of them...