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Exactly that sweeping solution-and a worldwide government of unspecified political complexion to carry it out-is the immodest proposal of the antinuclear movement's rallying point, Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth. The book first appeared as three articles in The New Yorker and met wide acclaim among opinion leaders. Walter Cronkite said it "may be one of the most important works of recent years." Washington Post Columnist Mary McGrory said that the book was "working its way into the national psyche." Even journalists who disagreed with Schell's call for disarmament, like Columnist...
...federal prosecutor in Manhattan and an Assistant Deputy Attorney General under Eisenhower, his 30-year career has been largely devoted to private practice. Said Silverman, who is a former president of the Legal Aid Society and president-elect of the American College of Trial Lawyers: "It would be immodest of me to suggest that I am supremely qualified for [the special prosecutor's] role...
...calling. For 48 years, eleven volumes and nearly 10,000 pages, Will Durant labored with monastic devotion on a "biography of mankind" that would place 110 centuries of human thought and endeavor within easy reach for the average reader. The Story of Civilization was, he admitted, "an absurd enterprise, immodest in its very conception," but also irresistible to the compulsive teacher and self-confessed "lover of the lovers of wisdom," who died a week...
Papagianis almost missed out on all that glory. He came to Harvard planning to become the football team's star placekicker--not an immodest ambition, considering Notre Dame had offered him a football scholarship. He soon decided, though, that he was more interested in soccer and switched teams...
...stand-up comic, which Klein takes great, immodest pride in being, he much prefers the college concert circuit to the big money gambling and entertainment dens. "Where they don't serve drinks or food. With theater seats, facing one direction--college gymnasiums, lecture halls, theaters. With college audiences I can reach for the highest...