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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...coffee table is stacked with books, his desk is cluttered with papers. You can almost picture Allison slaving away efficiently in a dimly-lit office 90 hours a week, deriving enjoyment from pushing papers and organizing files. There is a touch of the politician in him, as he smoothly introduces strangers and smiles expansively. But when he says he admires "those who run for elective positions, who are out there slugging it out, putting their own skin on the line," the implication is unmistakeable: Graham Allison would never be one of them...
...coffee table is stacked with books, his desk is cluttered with papers. You can almost picture Allison slaving away efficiently in a dimly-lit office 90 hours a week, deriving enjoyment from pushing papers and organizing files. There is a touch of the politician in him, as he smoothly introduces strangers and smiles expansively. But when he says he admires "those who run for elective positions, who are out there slugging it out, putting their own skin on the line," the implication is unmistakeable: Graham Allison would never be one of them...
...coffee table is stacked with books, his desk is cluttered with papers. You can almost picture Allison slaving away efficiently in a dimly-lit office 90 hours a week, deriving enjoyment from pushing papers and organizing files. There is a touch of the politician in him, as he smoothly introduces strangers and smiles expansively. But when he says he admires "those who run for elective positions, who are out there slugging it out, putting their own skin on the line," the implication is unmistakeable: Graham Allison would never be one of them...
Since Price arrived in 1968 to rescue the floundering Goodspeed, it has changed from a straw-hat company with a nine-week season to a national theater that stays lit 39 weeks. This year's season started April 6, and it will end Dec. 21 with a repeat of last year's hit, The Five O'clock Girl (1927), a lightheaded romance about a rich polo player and a poor clerk in a dry cleaners...
...DONALD NIXON never got close enough to his presidential brother to enjoy the sweet abuse of a tongue-lashing, although once when the Nixon brothers were younger, Dick "lit into me and gave me a dressing down I'll never forget," recalls Don. "He aired all of his gripes of the past two or three years...