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...Normative Crisis in the Development of the Adoptive Family--a brown-bag luncheon talk with Joyce Pavao of The Family Center in Somerville. At noon at Harvard Neighbors at 17 Quincy St. Call 495-4940 for details...
...something more than the Western hero transplanted to the city's wilderness. He is not a detached solitary; he is a family man, pleased when his wife tucks a love note into his brown-bag lunch, careful to include both an Eskimo and a butterfly kiss in his little daughter's good-night ritual. Nor is he a man who has educated himself along the trail; instead, he proudly asserts his learning through the punctilious formalities of his manner and diction. Indeed, he is a man whose survival (and killer) instincts are in dire need of on-the-job training...
...Deputy Attorney General in 1973 rather than fire the Watergate special prosecutor), Ruckelshaus, 51, is a veteran of Government hotspots, including a stint as acting director of the FBI in 1973. Easygoing and open, he consults widely within the agency before making decisions, walking through the departments and sharing brown-bag lunches with lower-level employees. Says one: "He can be a Boy Scout but also one of the boys...
...lunches. In the Senate debate that followed, Maryland Republican Charles McC. Mathias wondered whether "we are not witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links the child to the home." Brown-bag lunches might not meet federal nutrition standards, he observed, "but I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility." Nonetheless, Mathias, echoing the dilemma that Congress faced, voted with the majority to override Ford's veto. As he explained: "No humane...
...first rule of politics is to be different," a veteran Brown aide remarked in 1976, when the campaign emphasized the exotic in his personality, capitalizing on people's interest in his outrageous lifestyle and philosophy. The years of misty evocations of Zen consciousness, bachelor pad living, and inviting royalty to brown-bag lunches have taken their toll, however--the image of unorthodoxy that was Brown's greatest asset in 1976 has now become his chief liability. Brown's campaign staff works furiously to dispel the conception of the governor as a "California flake...