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...Michigan's Financial Institutions bureau commissioner in 1981 and 1982, a state senator said she was sometimes "pimping for the bankers." In reply, Seger later quipped, "The whores in the legislature are on such long-term contracts that they do not need pimps." With that spirit and wit, she should be able to stand the heat in her next job. Last week President Reagan nominated Seger, a professor of finance at Central Michigan University known for her free-market philosophy, to the seven-member Federal Reserve Board...
...friend revealed that his most trying experience as a graduate student in the Arts and Sciences has been the department's annual Christmas party. "It's like a fencing match with words as sabres. People foil merely to score points on wit and erudition. While many attacks can be quite cutting. It's even worse if you don't compete because you're seen as incompetent at best, and even stupid...
...casual and then unconventional method of simply spreading a dozen or more books in front of me, saying. "Take them along, read any that interest you and ignore the rest. "From Francis learned to love oddities like Tristram Shandy's My Uncle Toby and to enjoy the wit and wisdom of Henry Fowler's Modern English Usage...
...weekend Mr. Baker had me drive him to Dorset, Vt., where he was to judge a play competition between one-acters written by former pupils of his. The other judges were poet Alfred Kreyin borg and critic, wit and, in Baker's opinion, arch-poseur, Alexander Woollcott. Just as Mr. Baker had told me he would, Woollcott--even out in the sticks--insisted on holding the curtain 15 minutes, so he could make a dramatic appearance, swooping down the center aisle, complete with opera cloak and gold-topped walking stick...
...After a stint as executive editor of Playboy (1970-74), Demarest returned to TIME, where he wrote Living and contributed to several other sections of the magazine. Over the years he wrote about subjects as diverse as military history, urban planning, gardening and gourmet food, always bringing wit, intellectual rigor and urbanity to his work...