Word: clement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashion or to the ease of his readers. Hanley's essential subject is a darkness that most people would rather whistle through: the abrasions of living that wear away spirit and soul. A Dream Journey, Hanley's 26th book, is a particularly harrowing example of his craft. Clement Stevens, 50, is a painter with ferocious determination but no special gift. Lena, his wife in everything but name, sums up the fruits of his labor: "Two exhibitions, ten private sales, a deal of barter." Clem no longer leaves their apartment on the top floor of a crumbling London house...
...Hugh has a record of flirting with danger, he has admitted he "likes to be frightened" and proves it by driving at 100 m.p.h. from Glasgow to Monte Carlo ("to see how fast I could get there") and racing horses with Liberal M.P. Clement Freud. Whatever the reason, Sir Hugh's recklessness has cost him more than money: the damage to his name could be permanent...
Socking it Back. One of the most vocal chokers has been Paul Clement, 45, a retired truck driver who lives on a dilapidated farm in a double-size trailer with his wife and three children, including a son now in the eleventh grade. Clement organized BELT (Better Education for Less Taxes) to fight back: "They won't take no for an answer. When we vote down the budget, they sock it back to us with the same figures...
...Clement, who likes to swig iced tea from a Mason jar, attacked the offering of 123 different courses at Eagle Point High. He cited such "frills" as horticulture and jewelry making. Said he: "My boy can't read too good, not much better than me. They let him do what he wants and don't make him learn what he should. I hate to close the school, but we got to make them listen...
...best choice to battle what he calls the "sophisticated and subtle" racism of the '70s. A member of one of Memphis' most prominent black families, he became both a lawyer and a minister. He practiced law in Memphis from 1949 to 1965, when Tennessee Governor Frank Clement named him a criminal-court judge; the next year he was elected to an eight-year term in his own right. At the same time, he often preached on Sundays, alternating between a church in Memphis and one in Detroit. Hooks and his wife Frances have an adopted daughter...