Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups, the courts, congressional committees, dissident lawyers and even recipients of legal services are challenging the bar's traditional methods of doing business. As some 8,500 members of the American Bar Association gather in Chicago this week for the bar's 100th annual convention, delegates will address themselves to a broad range of new challenges and conditions. Among them...
...clear on the novel's opening pages, Coover's torrent of trivia seems like so much padding along the way to a foregone conclusion. He cannot resist parading his data: a nickname is provided for every U.S. President through Truman, and Betty Crocker, like a public address announcer, introduces the 96 U.S. Senators by name at the execution. He also likes to show off his literary ingenuity, as in a long narrative passage told through song lyrics. e.g., "... down to St. James' Infirmary on the trail of the lonesome pine, and back to ole Virginny...
...unsubtle, missionary foreign policy style and his human rights campaign were hurting detente and East-West relations. But Chancellor and President took pains to mute their differences, and both sides considered the meeting "an atmospheric success." Schmidt-whom Carter had called "Helmut" all along-finally unbent enough to address the President as "Jimmy." At one remarkable moment, Schmidt, an amateur organist, grabbed the baton from the conductor of the Marine Corps band and led the group in the rousing final measures of the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
Jimmy Carter's Bible rests on his desk in the Oval Office with a mark to the verse from Micah used in his Inaugural Address, in which the Hebrew sage admonishes the Lord's people "to do justly, and to love mercy, and walk humbly with thy God." These days, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance also keeps a Bible close by in his seventh-floor State Department office-next to a book that discusses Israeli borders and a map of the Middle East...
Toon also became involved in another U.S.-Soviet tiff. Russia's television network refused to broadcast the ambassador's July 4 address to the Soviet people, an annual event since 1974, because he would not delete a passage that said, "Americans will continue to state publicly their belief in human rights and their hope that violations of these rights, wherever they may occur, will end." Unwisely, Toon had not cleared his text with Washington...