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excerpts from the book Political Fictions by Joan Didion Vintage Press, 2001. paper Reagan Administration - December 18, 1997 (p91) As President, Ronald Reagan acted on the work habits of a lifetime: he regarded his daily schedule as being something like a shooting script in which characters came and went, scenes were rehearsed and acted out, and the plot was advanced one day at a time, and not always in sequence. The Chief of Staff was a sort of producer, making certain that the star had what he needed to do his best; the staff was like the crew, invisible behind the lights, watching the performance their behind-the scenes efforts had made possible.... Reagan's performance was almost always flawless. If he was scheduled to receive a visitor at ten o'clock, he would finish whatever else he was doing at 9:58, clear off his desk, clear his mind of whatever had gone before, and prepare himself for the next scene. Dinesh D'Souza, when he arrived at the Reagan White House as a senior domestic policy analyst in I987, was twenty-six years old, a resident of the United States only since I978 but already a name within what had come on the right to be called "the movement." He was a native of India who seemed to have arrived in this country with preternatural pitch for the exact charged chords (affirmative action, multiculturalism, gender studies, the academy in general) that drove its politics of resentment, and he played them, first as a founding editor of The Dartmouth Review, then as editor of the equally strident Princeton Prospect, managing editor of the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review, and biographer of the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell.

56. William H. Calvin's A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MIND (Oxford, 2004) them away and retrieve them and revise them again, focus on them all our attention, all of our emotion, render them into objects. – joan didion, 1979 http://williamcalvin.com/BHM/ch10.htm

posted 1 September 2003 HOME Books Research Talks ... Brief Bio COPY-AND-PASTE CITATION William H. Calvin, A Brief History of the Mind (Oxford University Press 2004), chapter 10. See also http:// WilliamCalvin.com/BHM/ch10.htm William H. Calvin SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98195-1800 USA The way we think in dreams is also the way we think when we are awake, all of these images occurring simultaneously, images opening up new images, charging and recharging, until we have a whole new field of image, an electric field pulsing and blazing and taking on the exact character of a migraine aura.... Usually we sedate ourselves to keep the clatter down.... I don’t necessarily mean with drugs, not at all. Work is a sedative. The love of children can be a sedative.... Another way we keep the clatter down is by trying to make it coherent, trying to give it the same dramatic shape we give to our dreams; in other words by making up stories. All of us make up stories. Some of us, if we are writers, write these stories down, concentrate on them, worry them, revise them, throw them away and retrieve them and revise them again, focus on them all our attention, all of our emotion, render them into objects. – Joan Didion, 1979

57. Move Over, Joan Didion / Make Room For Rebecca Solnit, California's Newest Cultu Move Over, joan didion Make room for Rebecca Solnit, California s newest cultural historian. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/13/CMGRE6NA5H1.DTL

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60. The Believer - Joan Didion’s Formal Experience Of Confusion This, according to the rules of nonfiction, means either that joan didion’s new book is not nonfiction or that it is nonfiction of a different sort. http://www.believermag.com/issues/200310/?read=article_dagata

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