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Broadway Columnist Mark Hellinger got him a reporter's job at Hearst's Mirror and taught him to write short sentences that tugged at the heartstrings. Bishop tugged away off and on for twelve years at the Mirror, drifted through jobs as a ghost writer for Hellinger, became an editor at Collier's and ended up as a freelancer, mired in drink, depression and debt...
...actually provoke attack. The suspicion, nourished by the hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric of the incoming Reagan Administration, is that the U.S. believes there could be such a thing as "victory" in a nuclear war and seeks the capacity to conduct the next war strictly in Europe. (An absurd mirror image of the absurd European hope that if there has to be an East-West war it will consist of salvos between the Soviet and American homelands...
...monarchist in the realm. Says Robert Lacey, author of Majesty, a study of Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor: "The reason the monarchy survives in the 1980s is that, through a combination of luck and also good training, the House of Windsor has continued to produce persons who mirror the national virtues." Adds Politics Professor Richard Rose of Scotland's University of Strathclyde: "There are those who are positive about the monarchy, and those who are lukewarm. There aren't many anti people." Especially now, when the prevailing wedding fever seems to have raised the public temperature...
...wrote to fellow-traveling Czechoslovak Theologian Josef Hromádka, saying: "My hair stands on end" at the concept of "freedom and peace" through "Nikita, Mao and even Fidel." Hromádka's association of the Christian Gospel with the political cause of Communism, he said, was a mirror image of the sin committed by Niebuhr and other anti-Communist "Western fathers...
...confined to the institution, where he is slowly going crazy, not to mention acquiring an unkempt personal appearance. There are several tearful scenes with his parents (who are square and lawyers, but much easier to deal with than Brooke's elders). Finally, after he looks in the mirror and sees Brooke staring back, he manages to talk his way out of the giggle house. Another natural ending. But no; he is obsessed still by Ms. Shields, and sets out across the country to find...