Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laughing Last is much closer to the book Alger Hiss should have written. If Tony Hiss errs, it is on account of a candor that at times is almost too blunt. We are told more about the sex lives of father and son than perhaps we want to know. But that flaw is understandable, the idea behind the book is to get us to see Alger Hiss as do those close to him, as "Al", the disciplined, kind, warm father and husband who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. So we learn of Al's love...
...first Oval Office days. The low-key Inaugural speech, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue, the televised chat in a sweater, the surprise visit to frozen Pittsburgh, putting Amy in a public school, cutting down on limousines, banning Hail to the Chief -all were seen as moving Carter closer to the people. "That spirit of mutuality, that feeling that all Americans are part of the Government and not apart from it, is a feeling that we have missed for years now," editorialized the Dallas Times Herald, which endorsed Ford...
...late last year for criticizing the regime. A host of dissident artists, writers and students have been arrested or beaten up by goons hired by the security police. Following the Soviet style, the police have lately taken to putting dissidents into insane asylums. Last week Honecker called for a closer connection between the Soviet KGB and the East German security police because forces of "reaction" were trying to cause conflicts...
...wrote that could well be the one to bring Mexico closer to its full promise...
Jeffrey D. Brown '79, a new resident of Dunster House, said yesterday he transferred to the River area in order to be closer to sports facilities and classes...