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...continue to plug away? Well, for one thing, if his short story "Da Vinci" is any indication, none of Goldman's twelve novels will ever become standard high school curriculum. Pauline Kael once said, "If you're hoping for elegance, don't begin with William Goldman." As Adventures makes clear, he even has trouble writing complete sentences. Screenwriting is such a natural for him that he relates important episodes of his life in script format. Besides, boyhood entrenchment, wider audiences-not to mention the pay-keeps luring him out to Hollywood...
...underlying that explanation is a fundamental change in the educational hierarchy. Then, there was no problem whatsoever with having Harvard represent American colleges in general. Now, Carr says, if a radio station gave Harvard an hour-long plug--a highly unlikely occurrence--"then a lot of other institutions would expect the same for them." And rightly...
...classicist drew from the range of ancient Greek literature, as he built up his unorthodox argument that Socrates and Plato were totalitarian, absolutist, and elitists to boot. Along the way, he made brief detours, for instance to call Solon the "Franklin D. Roosevelt of Athens" or to make a plug for studying the great classes ("All our feelings as human beings are there...
Since the struggle to plug leaks in Washington is certain to be a losing one, there was no great alarm in the capital when the President on March 11 signed a new National Security Decision Directive. It gave various department and agency heads the right to force lie-detector tests on employees suspected of passing classified information to reporters. The announcement was greeted with puzzlement, since many leaks come from these same officials when it suits their purpose. Last week, on closer scrutiny, the order took on a more ominous...
...There's as assumption that if the native people simply plug into American capitalism they'll be fine-American capitalism isn't fine." Allen Frazier, a member of the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California said Saturday. "We have to work in conjunction with our culture and heritage to maximize our chances for success...