Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEPARATED. Watergate Sleuth Carl Bernstein, 35, who co-authored All the President's Men; and Essayist Nora Ephron, 38, vinegary author of Crazy Salad; after 3½ years of marriage, two children...
...million and took up to five years to bring a drug through the Federal Drug Administration's regulatory maze. It now costs $18 million and can take ten years. As a result, the number of new drugs introduced by U.S. pharmaceutical firms has fallen off 50%. Writes British Essayist Henry Fairlie: "The once rambunctious American spirit of innovation and adventurousness is today being paralyzed by the desire to build a risk-free society...
Within weeks the nucleus of a presidential commission was formed: Senators Claiborne Pell, Frank Church and Henry M. Jackson signed on; so did Congress men and scholars, fund raisers and survivors of Hitler's death camps. The President named Novelist and Essayist Elie Wiesel chairman of the commission...
...burned down the house to roast the pig." Borrowing this image from English Essayist Charles Lamb, an aghast White House official summed up the most extraordinary week in the White House since Richard Nixon resigned in 1974. In four days, Jimmy Carter dismantled the leadership of his Government by demanding the resignations of his top 34 Cabinet and staff aides. And then?the chairs of power theoretically empty?he set about firing those he deemed ineffective, disloyal, political liabilities, annoyances to his closest associates, or all of the above...
...wrote English Essayist Francis Bacon in 1625. For centuries his countrymen have been doing their best to turn their rocky little island into a facsimile of Eden. England is a nation of gardeners, and at no time has the national green thumb been more visible. The English Tourist Board has declared...