Word: classics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weinberger, veterans of Taxi and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In the new show, these writers have again loaded a simple sitcom premise with a wide variety of well-drawn (and exceptionally well cast) characters, sophisticated jokes and astute social observations. The first episode, which may be a classic of its kind, also manages to work in unforced slapstick gags, a touch of pathos and a double-whammy final punch line...
...dedicated grubber of New England soil, an avid and acerbic consumer of seed catalogues. She had readjust about everything written about greenery and had strong opinions on every specimen from azalea to zinnia. So strong that Katharine S. White managed to sow in the least rustic of magazines a classic series of green thoughts: on herbs and weeds, trees and seeds, pedigreed blooms and wildflowers. Her articles were written with elegance and precision, and they deserve a place with such horticultural classics as Charles Sprague Sargent's Manual of the Trees of North America and John Parkinson...
...Cartoon History of United States Foreign Policy, 1776-1976 by the editors of the Foreign Policy Association (Morrow; $4.95). Including Low's classic of Hitler and Stalin bowing to each other: "The scum of the earth, I believe"; "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume...
Certainly not Harvard. At an average of 6 ft., 1 in. and 175 lbs., they were too small. And they had lost the Sprints last year and finished fourth at the San Diego Crew Classic...
John C. White, Democratic Party Chairman and a Carter supporter, said yesterday a Kennedy-Carter matchup would be "one of the classic struggles of our political history...