Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter's first full-length speech on Soviet-American relations. Here was the President on what looked for all the world like an old-fashioned barnstorming tour through his native South last week, and here were 500 Southern state legislators in the gardenia-adorned Gaillard Auditorium in Charleston, S.C., all ready for a few lighthearted moments of down-home pleasantries and political good tidings. That same evening the President was off to Yazoo City, Miss., for a "Citizens' Public Meeting" (see following story) and then, the next day, he was lifted by helicopter...
...CHARLESTON AND OTHER STORIES...
...stories in Charleston are flatter in tone and more realistic. Yet Donoso's themes of youthful magic and distorted middle-aged passions are still evident. Children have the power to enchant and destroy; dogs and cats provide unusual escapes for the trapped and the lonely. Donoso balances lean, graceful prose with a sense of the psychological arabesque. It is a fine combination for modern ghost stories in which the reader may recognize phan toms of himself. R.Z. Sheppard
...shift-change times, they often must show up at one mine at midnight, at another many miles away eight hours later, at a third in midafternoon. Their campaigns have consisted largely of personal abuse. Patrick accuses Miller of wasting union funds by spending excessive time at a motel in Charleston instead of going to his home 30 miles away; he is careful to go no further than that. Miller says that Patrick lost the union millions of dollars by setting up a computerized dues-accounting system that does not work. Patterson calls both Miller and Patrick "clowns"; Patrick terms Patterson...
...itself. The Dock Street Theater opened in 1736 and is said to be the oldest professional theater in the U.S. The present playhouse represents a 1937 restoration that resembles a religious meetinghouse fashioned with seasoned, dark-hued wood and seats that resemble church pews. For Simon Gray and Charleston's Spoleto Festival, the old house represents fresh beginnings and new horizons...