Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those of you who like sweet-voiced singing, Judy Collins will sing and play Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. at Symphony Hall. A family affair...
Salinger's commentaries-on such topics as Carter's foreign policy, the Bert Lance affair, the Concorde furor-are a Franco-American spaghetti of high-minded civics lessons and smoke-filled-room atmospherics. Though he correctly foresaw Carter's troubles over energy legislation, he has blandly described the New York governorship as a major stepping stone to the White House-which it has not been since 1932. French journalists, unaccustomed to Salinger's anecdotal style, dismiss him as a lightweight. "I don't go running to him to find new information," sniffs a leading Paris...
...audience, confessors, advisers and advisees. Editors Linda Gray Sexton, the poet's elder daughter, and Lois Ames, a close friend and estate-designated biographer, make it quite clear that to be on the poet's mailing list could mean finding oneself embroiled in a passionate postal love affair. "Dearest dear De," "Dear One," "Dear Phil Baby," "Dear Wonderful Nolan!" "Dear wonderful lovely Tillie Olsen" are typical salutations. She lavished compliments, flattery and secrets, and expected to be repaid in kind. Like her poems, her letters were uninhibited pieces of herself offered " in deep fear of rejection...
...firehouse than a bureau, with some 50 incoming calls daily. The whole country wants to talk. It is as if everyone has been put on a think-tank-a-day alert on South Africa's future." McWhirter interviewed Minister of Justice James Kruger on the Stephen Biko affair, and has met with Afrikaner students, Boer families, colored leaders and young black militants. "One disheartening thing that has happened in the past few months," he says, "is the growing suspicion in Soweto, the black ghetto outside Johannesburg, toward all whites. When I first arrived, a black friend was enough, then...
...opposition to hedonism is not limited to conservatives. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago black-activist leader, says he used to think that sexual morality was a private affair, but then he began to wonder why he saw so few young people engaged in social action. "Were they marching for full employment?" he asks. "Were they marching to rebuild cities? No, the thrust was to lower the drinking age to 18, to legalize marijuana, to engage in sex and accept no responsibility for the baby. [But] one has to have an ethical base for a society. Where the prime force...