Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Autumn introduce themselves in the first sentence of the book as effortlessly as in nature: Time--arrested, slowed, kneaded by memory and chance, centuries disturbed like dust, recalled like a dream; Power--huge, inevitable, mysterious even to its wielder; Death--arriving at an unex-pected moment, as a carrion bird or in a penitent's garb; and, finally, the rituals of everyday life, expressed in the prepositional phrases, uncapitalized, unpersonified, that begin the book with "over the weekend" and end it with the drawing of the "uncountable time of [the patriarch's] eternity...
...Virginia and Texas. In both, Ford seems to be moving up. Texas Democrats took Carter's Playboy confession of mental lechery in stride, but still simmer over his linkage of Native Son Lyndon Johnson with Richard Nixon in "lying, cheating and distorting the truth." Even so, Lady Bird Johnson is still a member of Carter's Texas steering committee. Carter has also lost some support in Mississippi, but Florida seems safely in his camp, and he seems overwhelmingly ahead in Tennessee, Arkansas, the Carolinas and Alabama, as well as in Georgia...
TIME has learned that Nixon himself phoned Lady Bird Johnson to express his dismay at the candidate's gratuitous slap at her late husband, an action reminiscent of less serious barbs Carter has hurled in the past at Humphrey, George Wallace and Edward Kennedy. Carter quickly called Mrs. Johnson to emphasize that he admired her husband and had spoken favorably of him elsewhere in the interview, but did not apologize, according to intimates of L.B.J.'s widow. Lady Bird described herself through an aide as "hurt and perplexed." The timing could hardly have been worse. Rosalynn Carter...
...world, he is a Southern farm boy at heart who still knows how to turn sweet-potato vines, chop cotton and pull peanuts, and who looks homeward to a hamlet so archetypically Southern that it is almost parody. Beyond that, he is a bucolic devotee of hunting and bird 'dogs, stock-car racing and rock music -notably backwoods Georgia's own Allman Brothers. Says he of Georgia rockers in general: "They're good boys. I understand them...
Some people say that UHall will never entirely stop feeling this intrusion because it often operates as an old-boy network and Radcliffe women are simply not old boys. As one UHall administrator says, "Mrs. Horner is sitting in the cat-bird seat and the people here just don't know how to fathom...