Or rather, I'm constantly subdividing into new media iterations in which I retain precisely the same level of affable, unthreatening semi-idiocy.
In my selfconscious, preteen, pupal stage, I moved away from Nutwood to Bunty and Mandy annuals, of which I retain a predominantly pink collective impression of breathless stories about ponies and Victorian orphans nursing wounded squirrels back to health.
In fairness to the Bush administration, for which I retain a great deal of admiration, putting young campaign workers and connected college graduates into White House personnel positions is nothing new.
But hitting in the face is still an act the possibility of which I retain as an idea--one of those unerasable personal facts we carry around in deep memory and inventory almost every day, and that represent the seemingly realest, least unequivocal realities we can claim access to..
The reading sparked an early interest in McEwan's work, but it also led me to the music of Pulp, a love of which I've retained ever since.
Here I am trying to rediscover landscapes and memories of my childhood, very precious things, and to avoid as far as possible adolescent memories, toward which I still retain some leftover rancor.
It's true: the most exciting element of Christmas used to be the "snow" beneath the tree, made of polystyrene packing material, which, I remember, thrillingly retained one's teeth marks when you bit in.
Which is why I retain my initial impression that what the intra-conservative debate needs at the moment is not some sort of struggle to the death between libertarian populism and other varieties of conservative reform, but a quest for a populist, reformist synthesis instead.
[To gauge the downward spiral of group activity, I casually surveyed the 65 LinkedIn groups to which I belong. I have retained membership in most of these groups for years.
"It's an unusual organization with unusual pressures, and there are many jobs here for which I have to recruit and retain strong people from the commercial world.
