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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...cute I could eat you up.' And I knew if my mother didn't hurry up with the cooking, they probably would. So, on one level at least, you could say that the Wild Things are Jewish relatives." At first those relatives were not encouraging to young Maurice. He remembers being "a miserable kid who excelled neither scholastically nor athletically." But he could draw, and he could read. When he was six, he collaborated on a book with his older brother, and when his big sister gave him books for birthday presents, he found a land...
During her first months in the hospital, she was so helpless that she could not even do what she longed to do-take her own life. She begged a girlfriend to do it for her several times, but the friend refused. Encased in a canvas Stryker frame, Eareckson felt life was meaningless. "All those yardsticks for success that had come to mean so much to me were shattered-being pretty and popular, dating the right guys." The first time she went shopping for clothes, "they just hung on me like a sack." After waves of depression and a phase...
...Harry Truman was lucky enough to have his given name sound like a nickname, so as President he had more than a nominal advantage. President Carter, on the other hand, strode into history on the announcement, "My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm running for President." At first we thought we misheard him. Did he say Jimmy? Oh, there was Jimmy the Greek, oddly. And Jimmy Crackcorn, if you cared...
...only were not calling him Jimmy, they were calling him Carter, almost always with a hard edge of distaste. Indeed, the entire history of this Administration may be read in the evolution from "Jimmy" to "Carter," one name, in a sense, being the polar opposite of the other. The first law of nicknaming, then, is that the term must arise from the heart, from some irrepressible popular urge to bring a public figure closer to the family bosom. Britain's Margaret Thatcher was aided immeasurably in her campaign by being known as Maggie; "Ted" Heath and "Sunny Jim" Callaghan...
...thing- "The Napoleon of the Stump" (Polk); "The Sage of Wheatland" (Buchanan); "The Squire of Hyde Park." Perhaps Mr. Reagan will come to be known as "The Squire of Rancho del Cielo," or "The Gipper," in reference to his second most memorable movie role, or in reference to the first, "The Rest of Me." New York Builder Donald Trump is called "The Donald" by Mrs. Trump, so we might call Mr. Reagan "The Ronald." It is too early to tell...