The Nanny Seemed To Be Extinct Until

The Nanny Seemed To Be Extinct Until 1975, When, Like The Coelacanth, She Suddenly And Unexpectedly Reappeared In The Shape Of Margaret Thatcher.

In Washington, Success Is Just A Training Course For Failure.

I've Been Intrigued By 'le Monde' Ever Since Work Took Me To Paris Once, And I Noted That On A Day When There Was Some Huge Worldwide Story, The Paper Led Its Front Page On Some Cabinet Changes In Turkey. It Implied A Magnificent Disdain For The Quotidian Folderol Of Mere News.

Disney World Has Acquired By Now Something Of The Air Of A National Shrine. American Parents Who Don't Take Their Children There Sense Obscurely That They Have Failed In Some Fundamental Way, Like Muslims Who Never Made It To Mecca.

The Formal Washington Dinner Party Has All The Spontaneity Of A Japanese Imperial Funeral.