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Below the Bottom Line
… believed in Reaganomics and was convinced that his untried combination of programs would lead to a new prosperity. The … and it found few converts among the state and local officials who were in the best position to appraise the practical … that evolved in Washington out of compromise and expediency created a mixed economy with its rough edges softened …
His Master’s Voice
… never thought of ourselves as sociological data. Peddie was a pretty traditional place in 1965, before the … so at matriculation I fould myself at an institution firmly committed to authoritarian principles. Chapel was required … Twist at the time. So demonstrative was Mr. Simcott about points of etiquette that one day a boy who had accidentally …
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My Favorite Playwright
… thin and when she sits, she folds like Bambi. During rehearsals, she kneels on the floor in a ring of loose papers. Somewhere in the pile there’s a script, her computer, and a bottle of kombucha. Mona won a huge award … I got involved. I sent a message to the team through the Indiegogo page asking if I could work on the production for …
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My Natural History
… lie naked together for the first time. In his mind he is also another man: one in the last few weeks of his dying, … in his end he finds himself wondering over their naked bodies in the field from above as broken aloe weeps a sharp …
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Jefferson’s Farewell to Romance
… against his conduct as Governor. Martha Jefferson had died on the sixth of September, despite her husband’s tender nursing. “I lost the cherished companion of my life,” he wrote in his Memoir, “in whose … herself, after the initial gasps, with a restraint that rivals Jefferson’s own: . . . Your letter could employ me for …
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Shaw and the Sound Barrier
… in this paper have now reached a considerably larger audience by being incorporated in the closing chapters of “The … aspect of our society. I drew a parallel‚—which has now become something of a cliché—between the Renaissance and the … test pilot quite well. This helps to explain one of the points in his second letter. The receipt of this card filled …
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