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...thing is that it was not so long ago that the art of the insult was in its heyday. Winston Churchill was a virtuoso at it, calling Clement Attlee "a sheep in sheep's clothing" when he was not calling him "a modest little man with much to be modest about." Then there was this famous exchange...
Phelps, a writer in Rockville Centre, N.Y., spent three years sifting through thousands of fairy and folk tales looking for brave and clever heroines. She found enough for two books: Tatterhood and Other Tales (The Feminist Press; 1978) and her just published The Maid of the North (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). Here the fables are turned: women rescue men, outwit demons and fight like Cossacks. Tatterhood, named for her ragged, mud-stained clothes, batters a gang of wicked trolls and recaptures the severed head of her sister. An old Japanese woman, paddling along a stream, thinks quickly when pursuing monsters suck...
Americans inhabit a society in which they are conditioned from infancy to believe there is a pill for every ill: what one expert calls "jet-age pharmacology." By contrast, Winston Churchill is credited with the observation that "most of the world's work is done by people who do not feel very well." In the U.S. particularly, says Psychiatrist Mitchell Rosenthal, "people believe that you don't have to feel uncomfortable if you have the right doctor, the right drug connection, the right pusher. We have lost touch with the fundamental notion that people can operate not always...
Former Vice President Mondale. now practicing law with the well-connected Washington firm of Winston & Strawn, has been on the move hustling money for his 1984 campaign and expressing the quite novel theory that Reagan had misread the American mood. From the halls of academe, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., an unreconstructed Kennedyite, endorsed the view that Reagan's budget cutting is a "dangerous course...
...Geyelin, 58, and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 64. But when the vote was announced last week-gasp -Kissinger was dead last. Said one council member: "It just stood out on the ballot-a chance to vote against Kissinger. It was too good to pass up." Council President Winston Lord, 43, a former Kissinger protégé, had a different view. Said he: "It's really a fluke...