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...husband, George Tesman (Peter Eyre), for example, and her onetime lover, the writer Eilert Luvborg (Patrick Stewart). Her wrath stems from the fact that she has betrayed her own Dionysian will to freedom. She is an older Nora who failed to slam the door on parochialism, co vention and hypocrisy. Jackson reduces all that to the level of cocktail-party sarcasm and suburban jitters...
...accountants, 51 schoolteachers, 14 college professors, ten doctors, 57 engineers, 13 lawyers, six cartographers, 15 journalists-and only seven bartenders. Several ministers are also can cultists, including a Connecticut pastor who starts letters to fellow collectors "Dearly Beerloved." The association distributes a bimonthly newsletter, holds a sudsy annual "can-vention" that was attended this fall by more than 600 enthusiasts, and each year bestows on some beer-busty lass the dubious title of Miss Beer Can. Members range in rank from "brewery worker," with up to 249 cans, to "grand brewmaster" (1,000 or more...
...that there was surprisingly little disagreement between Hamilton and his coauthors, Madison and Jay. He writes: "The tough yet not despairing political theory that runs through Hamilton's 50-odd contributions is the same that carried him through his mature life." At New York's ratification con vention, it was Hamilton's charming, persuasive leadership that guided a pro-constitutional minority (19 of 46 delegates) "from the likelihood of defeat through the near certainty of stalemate to the actuality of victory...
Lodge, who had been a candidate for Governor, decided to try for the Senate instead - but refused to get out and work for it. Said he to a friend before the con vention: "I just can't go out and shake Lodge, people's and hands I'd and like say your 'I'm vote.' It John Davis would be insulting to them. They know who I am." Far from aloof was Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54, a hulking, aggressive six-term Congressman from Connecticut's agricultural eastern Second District. Seely-Brown...
Russia's Arkady Sobolev predictably declared that the only peril in Lebanon comes "from certain Western powers which are openly preparing armed inter vention there." But when the matter came to a vote, the Soviet Union, instead of imposing an expected veto, merely abstained as the Security Council voted 10 to 0 to investigate the charges that the U.A.R. was pouring men, guns and munitions into tiny Lebanon. Reportedly, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser had asked Russia to withhold its veto: he himself was not yet ready to involve his restless Syrian satellite in reckless adventures...