Word: arlen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Give You Anything But Love (1928), the Oscar-winning The Way You Look Tonight (1936) and hundreds of other popular songs; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. During her career of nearly a half-century, Fields collaborated with such composers as Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen. With her brother Herbert she wrote the books for the Broadway hits Annie Get Your Gun (1946) and Redhead...
...Watergate seemed to be a decisive factor in Philadelphia, where a notable Republican incumbent, District Attorney Arlen Spector, 43, was defeated by a Democratic virtual unknown, Attorney F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, 43. A popular campaigner who was slated for higher office, Spector had the backing of Philadelphia's Democratic Mayor Frank Rizzo. Both had been ardent supporters of Nixon, and this became a Fitzpatrick asset. On Election Day, Republicans did not get out enough of the vote, while the Democratic machine did its traditional duty; even its entire slate of 39 Court of Common Pleas judgeships was elected. "Watergate...
...Arlen's description of a community meeting in Uptown, a poor, racially diverse neighborhood, provokes an understanding of the strained relations between neighborhood and police. Irish police commander begins to answer written questions from the audience...
Were the men outright liars? Or did they reorder the grisly events, as Arlen suggests, for the sake of their sanity? In foreign war, he observes, the pattern has repeated time after time: "And in each case, it seems, a young officer has said: 'Men! Hold your fire!' and an angry heathen has snapped: 'Shoot...
...calm, though the problems which once aroused great passion have not disappeared. The issues discussed are the cross-town expressway and the extension of rapid transit. The police are under more attack than ever, but not for murder--only for scattered brutality and conscientious shake-down of tavern owners. Arlen returns to the house on West Monroe Street where the Panthers lived. A man is repainting the window trim. "Did something happen here?" Arlen asks. "Was it important?" An American verdict helps us to remember...