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Tower, 57, rose from obscurity as a political science professor to win the Sen ate seat vacated in 1961 when Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He is known in the Senate for his acerbic wit, keen mind and temper- and his ardent advocacy of military spending...
...once was. He neither smokes nor drinks, and often toils late into the night. He and his wife do not live lavishly, though one of their children, Basil, 19, can occasionally be spotted tooling around Damascus in his Porsche. Taciturn by nature but capable of flashes of wry wit, Assad has a personality that lends itself to the meticulous art of negotiation. U.S. diplomats ranging from Henry Kissinger to George Shultz, who have experienced Assad's grueling, six-hour marathons, respect him for his tenacity and intelligence...
...quiet, tiny child, self-immured, she seems to suffer from "an unremitting bewilderment," much like the young Cynthia Ozick, as she recalls herself. In the novel, Ozick has reserved some of her most luminous prose to endow this girl-child with tender life. Though bursting with irony and wit, The Cannibal Galaxy takes on a fearful seriousness when Ozick cites this fragment from the Talmud: "The world rests on the breath of the children in the schoolhouses...
...June, before Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy emceed a fund-raising "roast" of Arizona Congressman Morris Udall-who is renowned as a Washington wit-Kennedy's press secretary, Robert Shrum, asked Drayne and Mankiewicz for some gags. They helped Kennedy steal the show from the five Democratic hopefuls on the dais. Kennedy poked fun at Rollings' heavy Southern accent ("the only non-English-speaking candidate ever to run for President"). And he flicked a good jab at the easiest mark in town, urging that Interior Secretary James Watt be thrown to the wolves "while there are still some wolves...
...counts. The humbly born Sebastian Charnfort decided that "whoever is not a misanthrope at 40 can never have loved mankind." Nietzsche's phrases bore a strychnine smile: "The thought of suicide is a great consolation; with the help of it one has got through many a bad night"; "Wit closes the coffin on an emotion...