Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Enough. Dr. McDermott must recognize perfectly well the risk he is taking in superimposing one risible profession on another. Indeed, other than making passing note of his years of distinguished service as a consultant to juvenile courts and county jails, his campaign speeches betray little sign of his background. Nonetheless, the times may be exactly right for psychiatrists to hold public office. Not a moment too soon. (Another paid-up member of the American Psychiatric Association, Scott Sibert, is running for Congress in New Jersey's First District.) For one thing, their public image, by and large, is still...
...sleek 45-ft. Polymer III from Great Harbor Cay for West Palm Beach, a seven-hour cruise that Conrad had made at least 40 times. The Polymer III has not been seen since. The Coast Guard suspects no foul play, but friends and family of both men note that not only was Conrad an experienced yachtsman, but his boat was equipped with an automatically inflatable lifeboat and S O S radio beacons that would have switched on if the boat had sunk. Smugglers would find the Polymer III especially attractive because of its speed (22 knots), 3,000-mile cruising...
...unusual cautionary note in these days of pleasure cruises in the Bahamas and the Caribbean, where the legends of bloodthirsty pirates like Blackbeard and Jean Lafitte survive only in tourist brochures. But the warning, published in the respected Yachtsman's Guide to the Bahamas, is aimed at putting modern skippers on their guard against today's version of piracy: yachtjacking by drug smugglers who use tiny Bahamian cays as bases for shipping cocaine and marijuana from Latin America to South Florida...
Reagan: I couldn't make out the question. But I pledge here and now to the American people that should I ever become senile during my term of office, I'll, I'll (fumbling through note cards...
...recollection of Pike's church, and then characteristically proceeds to lace the narrative with what she calls elsewhere, "always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable 'I.'" "The greatest study of Mann is Mann" wrote Janet Flanner in a profile of the Nobel Prize-winning German novelist, and likewise, we may note that an equivalent scheme of interests exists for Joan Didion. As a reporter, she tells us, she is not really interested in issues, but in the "alchemy of issues." And what this seems to mean is that every character, every subject, from Linda Kasabian to shopping malls, must at some point...