Word: books
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former director of the John Hay Whitney Foundation, and Washington businessman Stanley Weiss. For the moment, the party reports funds of about $35,000. Much of this is supposed to represent small contributions from television viewers who saw Commoner promoting the idea of a new party along with his book The Politics of Energy...
Reality assumes wild forms as present and past collide and then split apart like memories bouncing off the walls of the brain. Each scene is Charlie's remembrance of incidents of his youth--his last good book, his first good job, his parents' first and last fight, his first sex. Charlie Now (age 45) and Young Charlie (age 17) waltz together on stage. They bicker. The elder blames the younger for childhood failures and gets taunted in return for his failure in maturity...
...unlike trashy novels. In large measure they consist of contrived drama, timely coincidence, tawdry innuendo and caricatured protagonists indulging in fantastical posturing. They are memorable mainly for the deja vu they inspire. And they are getting longer and longer. And longer. If a presidential contest were a book, it would be thousands of pages long...
...Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Tarnower& Baker (1) 2. Restoring the American Dream, Ringer (2) 3. Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bombeck (5) 4. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady (3) 5. The Right Stuff, Wolfe (6) 6. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (4) 7. Cruel Shoes, Martin (7) 8. Energy Future, edited by Stobaugh & Yergin 9. Serpentine, Thompson 10. The Medusa and the Snail, Thomas...
DIED. Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, 92, British wizard of aircraft design who invented the "bouncing bombs" used to destroy German dams along the Ruhr, a World War II exploit celebrated in a book and the film The Dam Busters; in Leatherhead, England. Sir Barnes' career began with his World War I work on a British counterpart to the German zeppelin, included his development of the first swing-wing jet aircraft and hollow aerofoil design, and ended in 1971 with his efforts to improve upon the supersonic Concorde, a machine he considered rather primitive...