Word: wolfing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
TIME IS TO BE COMMENDED FOR THE ARticles on Lincoln. Author Joshua Wolf Shenk observed that Lincoln's words have been used to support all kinds of causes. That's because Lincoln was a true leader who used his humor to disarm his adversaries and his common sense and knowledge of humanity to gradually ease them into a new position without bombast and stonewalling. Unfortunately, today we seem to be lacking political leaders with those abilities. If our elected representatives studied Lincoln a little more or studied as he did, things just might improve...
...project, we bring you stories from writers on the verge of publishing some major works of Lincoln scholarship. In our opening piece, author Joshua Wolf Shenk shows how much closer historians are coming these days to demystifying the Civil War President, both by humanizing him and by delineating his exceptional talents. Shenk's forthcoming book, Lincoln's Melancholy, focuses on how depression simultaneously challenged Lincoln and made him stronger. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin offers us a preview of her forthcoming work on Lincoln's political genius by showing how different aspects of Lincoln's deep emotional intelligence made...
...ontoxic mixture used to make hydraulic brake fluid.) The company's beleaguered chairman, Warren Anderson, traveled to West Virginia, where he announced that in the future Union Carbide would sound alarm swarning nearby residents at the first sign of any trouble. "We'd rather be accused of crying wolf," he said, "than be accused of not doing the proper thing at the proper time...
...groups, which are usually established long in advance, have been altered and expanded almost overnight. The Kirov, for example, had already been scheduled to perform at Vancouver's Expo 86 this month. When the good news arrived from Geneva, the company was able to add Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Wolf Trap in Virginia to its schedule. Unfortunately, the appropriate houses in Manhattan--dance capital of the world--were unavailable on such short notice, and New York dance lovers will have to put on their traveling shoes to see a company that helped define classical ballet. Philadelphians are unfortunate...
...Rendell's novels do, on two inward-looking impulses: revenge and the desire to hide. The characters are conventional middle-class Britons. Their behavior, however, is high gothic. The ironic Loopy, for example, becomes increasingly credible as events move toward the horrific. A middle-aged man, cast as the wolf in a Red Riding Hood playlet, discovers that he likes to wear a furry skin and romp in predatory games. His mother, who displayed such sport to him during his childhood, indulgently calls this business "going all loopy." The narrative works simultaneously as a send-up of werewolf legends...