Word: blunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ellmann adequately explained the circumstances surrounding Jim Joyce's letters to Nora in his biography, but he was muzzled by the Joyce estate when it came to actually divulging their content. All he could say then was that they "veered between blunt sexual excitation and extreme spirituality." Only now can we see the complete picture of the heaven and hell of Joyce's passions...
There was no election scheduled or in sight, but Australia last week was ablaze with impassioned political rallies, complete with flesh pressing, placard waving and, of course, blunt "Strine" rhetoric. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was under attack by Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser, ostensibly for his government's involvement in a political scandal. "Either he knew everything that was going on, in which case he's a liar, or, alternatively, he's a fool," said Fraser. For his part, Whitlam castigated the opposition as "reactionary, conservative fascists [who] have stopped at nothing to destroy democracy...
Died. John J. Rooney, 71, once one of the ruling powers in Congress as chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments and the Judiciary; after surgery at Georgetown University Hospital; in Washington, D.C. The blunt-speaking, tightfisted Brooklynite, who served in the House of Representatives from 1944 until his retirement last year, was famous for his sardonic attacks on State Department expense accounts, which he dubbed "booze allowances for cookie pushers...
...Americans felt that some Chinese officials were brusque almost to the point of rudeness. At one banquet, Kissinger toasted both Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai, but Foreign Minister Chiao neglected to do the same for President Ford. Observers in Hong Kong believe Kissinger was unnecessarily blunt to the sensitive Chinese...
...prognosis is not good; Syria last week not only attacked Jerusalem and Washington as part of what Defense Minister Mustapha Tlas called "our enemies, including U.S. imperialism and its agents and traitors," but Damascus also apparently included Egypt-for signing a Kissinger agreement-among the traitors. To blunt such attacks, Kissinger at the U.N. threw out a new proposal for an informal meeting of all Middle East "nations." By inference, that would exclude the Palestine Liberation Organization, but at the same time it could draw the Soviets once more into intricate discussions on such matters as the Golan Heights...