Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public; 400 more had been appointed at large by an overseeing national commission. They were white, black, yellow, Hispanic and Indian?and four were Eskimo. They were rich, poor, radical, conservative, Democratic, Republican and politically noninvolved. Three Presidents' wives were guests: Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson. (Jackie Onassis turned down an invitation; Pat Nixon was ill.) One step removed from Houston, but hardly less actively involved, were the roughly 130,000 women who had participated in the long delegate-selection process leading up to the conference?part of America's real majority: the 110 million women...
...precisely coiffed, dressed with impeccable conservatism, ankles neatly crossed, sitting side by side at the opening session in the Sam Houston Coliseum to promote the Equal Rights Amendment. "We don't look like bomb throwers, and we don't think like that either," said Lady Bird Johnson. Yet there they were: Lyndon Johnson's widow, Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter...
Women of all professions and persuasions descended on the city: feminists of the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.), compliant "total women," housewives, antiabortionists. In a remarkable scene, three wives of Presidents-Rosalynn Carter, Betty Ford and Lady Bird Johnson-paid homage to the women's movement at the opening session as delegates waved handkerchiefs and colored balloons. Feminist celebrities included Conference Chairwoman Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan and Susan B. Anthony II. On the other side of Houston, more than 15,000 women who opposed feminist goals gathered in a counterconference. Said Phyllis Schlafly, the Alton, Ill., housewife...
...young readers hundreds of ways to brighten a rainy day or beguile the hours between Sesame Street and supper. This is a cut-and-paste book for all seasons: there are valentines to make, Halloween masks to wear, even Christmas decorations to festoon the tree-including a Santa Claus bird and a mouse on ice skates. Bakers are invited to try an easy-to-make-and easier-to-eat-orange cake frosting; puppeteers are shown patterns for a cast of characters; TV fans are even given a plan for constructing a paper set with moving characters and a nonviolent script...
...standing invitation to teach at Harvard for three years, largely because of the reputation he built for himself with such award-winning feature films as "Love Affair or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator," "Innocence Unprotected," "W/R: Mysteries of the Organism," "Sweet Movie," and "Man is Not a Bird...