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...discriminated against, and hence that everyone is able to make significant choices about the conduct of his life. "For what may have been the first time in history," he says, "the masses were expected to decide questions of an aesthetic nature: wing tips or sneakers? Viyella or lamb's wool? peas or lima beans? colonial or ranch? Mustang or Vega?" If the ills of our society are completely out of our control, and if we all have limitless options individually, we can all become, as Hougan wants, nobly narcissistic...
...admit it. You're an ardent, dyed-in-the-wool, never-say-die Red Sox rooter, but right at this moment, you're quite happy to see the World Series finally...
...then there was the time that the Growler had his 79th birthday. The Growler was one of those dyed-in-the-wool ex-ballplayers from the Ty Cobb era who hadn't missed a Clinton home game in 60 years. When his birthday came around, the Clinton management presented him with a cake at home plate between the fourth and fifth innings...
...drank as tea to keep them alert during exams? A pot of basil in a kitchen window is said to discourage flies; fennel, which has a mild licorice taste, also keeps fleas away from dogs ("Plant fennel near to kennel"). Many herbs make subtle dyes for cotton, silk or wool used in hand-weaving and embroidery...
...newsprint and vitriol when she switched publishers. Whenever I call Kearns, I ask, "Don't you think you made a mistake?" and she always croons. "No, I just didn't know all this would happen. I Just didn't know," Kearns, in this very sweet way, had the wool over at least one reporter's eyes for a long time. At first she would only talk about Glikes-as-a-rejected-lover off the record, and when she finally slipped, or pretended to slip, and said it on the record, in her fragile way, she knew I would print...