Ifill compares the permanent White House press corps to civil servants who think they know better than political appointees. “It’s a surly group of people, because they outlive most administrations,” she says. “And they pride themselves on being residents of the building.” Their attitude ...
In an interview, she said that she considered that her specialty was writing about the doings of people who had been residents of De Soto and were still well-remembered but now lived elsewhere (Goodell, 1962). Just as her own children left town when grown, so did many others of that gen...
the old lady sitting in front of me, who was doing the Saturday New York Times crossword puzzle in pen, muttered “Brace yourself, it’s Ives.” I escaped that experience with
New words are introduced by these minorities to collectively label all opposition such as homophobic, racist and xenophobic, just like making up that word in a crossword that didn’t really exist to make things fit. One of the words we keep putting in the wrong place is the word right whe...