Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...battles over Edie's suitors--she claims to have been pursued by large numbers of worth-while men, any of whom she would have married, had it not been for her mother's interference. But in fact her string of unhappy affairs appears to have only drawn her closer to her mother--they go through their fights effortlessly, even lovingly in a compulsive sort...
...Kaplan quotes me as saying that "I feel closer to people here than at home." I don't recall having uttered this statement. I did say that "in SOME WAYS I feel closer to people here than at home," which signifies a totally different connotation than the one signified by Mr. Kaplan's words...
Carter's decisive victory last week over George Wallace in North Carolina, helped considerably by black voters (see story page 17), moved him closer to that goal. He now has 134 delegates. Behind him are Wallace with 58, Henry Jackson with 51 and Morris Udall with 23 (needed to nominate: 1,505). But Wallace has little prospect of winning any primaries except Alabama...
...Look closer. These people are bored...
...between them add up to a tweedy century. They swirl in a self conscious foxtrot, counting every two beats as one. Their time is halved like this: for a few minutes they will dance absent-mindedly, staring in wonder at the crowd; then they will close their eyes, hug closer, and do a fair imitation of themselves thirty years earlier...