Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Instead, Pearce will work for a Boston consulting firm for two years before entering Business School the following fall. His choices have been narrowed to two: Harvard and Stanford...
...skips from one anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades of the self-serving social climber Maugham wrote about when he depicted Hugh Walpole as Alroy Kear in Cakes...
...Human Bondage, considered Maugham's greatest work, formed the basis of his literary reputation. He describes himself "in the front rank of second-class writers"; in this novel only, perhaps, did he rise above that description. Morgan makes no attempt to judge Maugham's literary importance, preferring instead to defer to other writers like H.G. Wells, Henry James, and Theodore Dreiser, who said Maugham was "a great artist" and Of Human Bondage a work of genius. Morgan also cites critics like Malcolm Cowley, who thought Of Human Bondage Maugham's greatest work, and asked, "Why did he never climb back...
...Human Bondage was the story of Maugham's youth, with little alteration. It is the only one of his major works to examine his own life before he became a writer, instead of the lives of those who surrounded him afterwards; leading the life of the writer and traveller from the moment the finished medical school, then, may have paralyzed his work. Drawing from his own life, he could examine only the concerns of a writer, socialite, and traveler, much as pop singers today dwell incestuously, in their lyrics, on singers and singing...
...THIS, of course, could have been said very easily in a short, snappy article for Politics Today. Instead, Bakshian spends 250 pages telling us about the race, the candidates, and, most of all, himself. The problem, in short, is the book demands the "armed neutrality" that Bakshian said he started with, and Aram Bakshian is a screaming Republican. His resume reads like What's What in GOP boners in the last ten years. From 1971 to 1972, special assistant to then chairman of the Republican National Committee, Bob Dole. In June of 1972, he joined the White House, four days...