Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donovan was relaxing in his swimming pool at New York City's suburban Sands Point when a telephone call from Jimmy Carter caused him to amend his portfolio. Donovan's new post: Senior Adviser at the White House, charged with providing "substantive advice on the full range of matters before the President...
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN, historian: We are too much inclined to view history from the standpoint of great men. This I think is a dangerous exercise. Blacks, in particular, have been caught up in what I call the Booker T. Washington syndrome, the idea that there is someone who speaks for the black...
...Laurence Olivier, wandering around the set, trying to remember if he's French or German or Hungarian this week, telling every horsefly to "Call me Larry, dear...
Though many windsurfer dealers offer to teach the sport in six hours (generally two three-hour sessions at $40 each), a beginner may find the initial experience a wet one. "The first few times out," says Boston's Rollin C. White, "it's more accurate to call it wind-swimming." Adds Robby Naish of Hawaii, who last year won a world championship: "The reason I became such a good windsurfer is that I liked falling in the water." A certain amount of upper-body strength is needed to hold the sail aloft, but more experienced wind-surfers...
...Gary's parents, who say they never received a call or letter about his schoolwork from any of Gary's teachers, see things differently. Says his father: "If he's slow in learning, then I think you should hold him back. Even my little ones-if I don't discipline them early, then I'm going to have problems later. Have they ever asked themselves how a teacher could give a student a passing grade for each of the years he went to school, and then he gets to the eleventh grade and they tell...