Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall...
Over the next 25 years she acquired another husband, Albert Hardy Newman, a Chicago stockbroker and real estate developer. She also kept on picking up whatever paintings and art objects appealed to her: masks from Oceania, a phallic house post from Africa. She was not making investments. Explains one admirer: "She used her eyes rather than her ears." Says she: "I'm not really a collector. Buying art is really a sublimation...
...Albert Carnesale, professor of Public Policy, termed the Haig appointment "the end of an era," adding that "for a long time the country had hoped for a time in which military force played a less important role in world affairs." Haig is "a military careerist, not a statesman," he said...
...close, the process of generational amnesia and painful relearning seems wasteful; it leaves the countryside strewn with all kinds of debris - dead fathers surrounded by the or phan parricides who exuberantly did them in but do not even know yet how to use a spoon. However, as Albert Einstein once observed, "God is subtle, but he is not malicious...
...different from the one she had prepared for. She is slow at shifting gears, an essential ability for anyone who must appear live on-camera. Still, no one can anticipate everything, especially at that hour. Once on Today, when Barbara Walters was interviewing the author of a book about Albert Schweitzer, she asked how the good doctor was doing. Not very well, replied the unhappy writer: "He's dead...