Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is precisely the sort of rhetorical appeal that will attract angry and powerless small businessmen, landholders and workers who, because of sociological and economic changes in French society, had begun to swing toward the left. Yet Chirac is no deGaulle, and in whipping up a general reactionary fervor--without producing substantive new responses to those underlying socio-economic conditions--he may lose control of the forces he has roused and eventually find himself the victim of the frustration he has tried to harness...
Muldoon finally realizes that Norma, his Fantasy-Eve, will always distract him yet admits at last to himself that other worlds "like the ones orbiting in the daily sports pages" attract him equally. Norma's final goodbye is couched in her old Viennese accent--sincerity proves harsh, good-humored cynicism masks realism once more: "Vell, zee Revolution calls, you know...
...action in Marry Me is simple and complete, but with no one to hold it together. Its hero's plight is neither real enough to attract our sympathies, nor is his method of dealing with it courageous enough to merit our admiration. As a novel, Marry Me fails; but with some paring, it's a property Lee Strasberg might be interested...
...married to a Rockefeller (Nelson's younger daughter, Mary), has worked at Esquire and New York and, until last month, was editor of the Village Voice. Morgan says he will retain Editor Blair Clark, 59, to write the paper's editorials. He intends to raise freelance rates, attract more big-name political writers, and try to give The Nation something it has lacked for all but a handful of its 111 years: a profit. "My goal is to run it in the black," says Morgan. "It has always been an independent journal of ideas, and it will continue...
Manfred L. Karnovsky, White Professor of Biological Chemistry who will present the proposal to the Med School faculty later this month, said this week he has already heard some objections, centering on the scarcity of extra places in lab courses--the courses that would be most likely to attract undergraduates--and a belief that shortening the semester would adversely affect the med students' education...