Word: brights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When James Herriot writes about his animal farm, it doesn't have the Orwellian bite. Rather, in a series of bestsellers named after the lyrics of an Anglican hymn (All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Creatures Great and Small, AH Things Wise and Wonderful), the Scots-born veterinarian has painted a bucolic picture of his life ministering to four-legged friends in Yorkshire. Herriot, 61, who started writing at 50, now is consulting on scripts for the BBC, which has just begun to air a series based on his work. With it all, Herriot, a pseudonym for James Alfred...
...into Madison Square Garden in 1962 to fight Sonny Banks. "Banks hit Ali with the finest left hook I've ever seen. It would have floored King Kong. Ali's eyes glazed like he was out of it, and his keester hit the canvas. Then he sprang back up, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and stopped the guy cold. He won by a knockout. That's when I knew for sure. I really thought for a split second that Bank's punch was goodbye to everything, then and there...
...does Begin hold President Carter in high esteem. Publicly, he has exuded friendship and gratitude toward Washington. But in the company of colleagues, he has often been scathing about Carter. At least one Israeli has listened to Begin dismiss Carter as a naive, none-too-bright Jimmy-come-lately who can easily be manipulated. Reports of such talk have found their way back to the Administration. When asked to comment, Administration aides tend to smile thinly and change the subject. After all, they philosophize, if Begin can take the long historical view, so can they. Only in the other direction...
With elections only a month away, France's bleak wintry landscape was suddenly abloom with bright billboards last week. The most striking campaign poster was one showing a sturdy tree with a caption calling for CONFIDENCE IN BARRE. The tree referred to a celebrated comparison made by Premier Raymond Barre, who had likened his efforts to boost the French economy to nurturing a tree. "Obstinately but durably, the tree grows little by little," Barre assured French voters. On the other hand, Socialism and Communism blow in like a "typhoon," wreaking havoc in the whole forest...
...stars like the sun. Our neighbors know we are here, and their replies should be on the way. In another 15 or 20 years we will receive their message and meet our future. Let us be neither surprised nor disappointed if its form is that of Artoo Detoo, the bright, personable canister packed with silicon chips...