Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when he was shot eight times while driving to work, Chevron Boss Giovanni Theodoli, the president of the Italian association of petroleum companies, also practices unpredictability. When the time comes for the association's bimonthly meeting, only Theodoli knows in advance where the gathering will be, and members call him an hour beforehand to get a code number for the site...
...more than two decades, Albert Camus had been the lyricist of the absurd, a condition, he wrote, "born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world." To fill that silence, he wrote essays and fiction that have become part of the century's testament. His climb from obscurity was rapid: the poor North African upbringing was obscured by the Parisian celebrity...
Convoy's script, based on C.W. Mc-Call's bestselling pop song, rarely flirts with logic. The dialogue, which is glutted with CB-radio slang and western-movie cliches, ranges from the absurd to the subliterate. We never understand why Rubber Duck's nemesis (the congenitally irate Ernest Borgnine) is after him or what the truckers' grievances are. What's worse, we don't care. Next to this muddleheaded film, F.I.S.T. starts to look like a dynamic political manifesto. Peckinpah tries to enliven the nonsense with slow-motion automotive stunts and barroom brawls...
...call Joe Kraft pretentious, in a capital that also contains Marvin Kalb of CBS, is surprising. Ambitious might be a better word for the hard-working Kraft. He aspires to be as wide-ranging as Walter Lippmann once was but lacks Lippmann's rumbling, reflective authority. He gets around as Lippmann never did. Kraft can dispose of Jerry Brown one day, the Federal Reserve or neutron bomb the next, argue in another column that Carter follows "a policy of divine misguidance" (he has from the beginning condescended to Carter), then emplane to the Horn of Africa to see things...
Editors often have their enthusiasms-the literate George F. Will is one among newer columnists-as well as particular grievances. The vigor of a columnist's views doesn't trouble them, since with an avoidance of judgment that they call being open-minded, editors now seek for their pages a "broad spectrum" of attitudes. But they are wary of prejudicial opinions in the guise of reporting and most often cite Evans and Novak. The Los Angeles Times (whose own Washington bureau is highly regarded by the Washington press corps) dropped Evans and Novak because, in Editor...