Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remembered. The fumbles in Warsaw by two interpreters who seemed unable to convert Jimmy Carter's English into accurate Polish. The live TV mike in New Delhi that enabled pool reporters to hear the President undiplomatically instructing Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to send a "cold and very blunt" note to Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai about his nuclear policy. The dinner in the same capital dominated by a singleminded flycatcher who hovered behind Carter until -swat!-he nailed his prey and plucked it daintily from the linen. The Secret Service walkie-talkie conversations that somehow got broadcast over...
...injuries of class in an avowedly egalitarian society when she moves to San Francisco and takes a job in a doctor's office. Her co-workers -a working-class white and a ghetto black-initially mistrust her Eastern accent and sense of style. But Harry Argent, a blunt, flamboyant movie producer, is intermittently attracted to Eliza for what she is: "A sort of zaftig Jane Fonda," who needs not only a vocation but also...
...biggest loser by far was Whitlam, 61, the burly, blunt-spoken lawyer who in 1972 engineered Labor's first victory in 23 years and as Prime Minister managed to install many of the fixtures of welfare-state-ism in Australia, notably its first national health service. As soon as Labor's massive defeat became obvious, Whitlam announced that he would step down as party leader, thus leaving his former treasurer, Bill Hayden, 44, as his most likely successor. By contrast, the results were a minor victory for the Democrats' Don Chipp, 52, a Liberal renegade whose centrist...
...setting foot in Israel, was granting de facto recognition to a state that radical Arabs refuse to accept; 3) in speaking to the Knesset, he was also acknowledging Israel's right to consider Jerusalem as its capital (even the U.S. maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv). Attempting to blunt such criticism in advance of his trip, Sadat last week flew to Damascus to confer with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has been somewhat suspicious of his Arab brother since the second Sinai accord of 1975, through which Egypt regained the Abu Rudeis oilfields...
...urging of her psychiatrist, Sexton began to write verse. What started as therapy quickly became a craft, a vocation and a career. Her letters frequently refer to poetry as her life saver, but elsewhere she sees her work as appalling in its blunt candor. "Creative people must not avoid the pain that they get dealt," she writes an editor. "I say to myself, sometimes repeatedly 'I've got to get the hell out of this hurt' ... But no. Hurt must be examined like a plague...