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...identify herself in the midst of the act." Patty, his argument ran, was a normal, marriage-bound college coed of 19 when she was kidnaped; her fragile teen-age will was broken during her first six to nine weeks with the S.L.A., during which she was kept in a closet and sexually abused by S.L.A...
Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak have blasted him for "fibbing." Manhattan's Village Voice has lambasted him in two pieces, implying that he is, among other things, a closet racist. The New Republic, which liked him in April, decided in January that "up to now, Carter has been unjustifiably considered part of the liberal pack." Politicians, especially, have seized opportunities to undercut Carter: when he recently referred in public to Hubert Humphrey's "record as a loser," Democrats of divergent political plumage leaped to Humphrey's defense. But when Edwin Muskie made a similar comment...
Happy day! We can finally come out of the closet. Your acknowledgment of the value and enjoyment found in soap operas [Jan. 12] enables us Big Mac lovers to admit that we watch and weep along with Julie and Doug...
Richard B. Freeman, professor of Economics, found five minutes and a seat for me in between phone calls in a large closet of an office cluttered with computer print-outs and color travel posters. Freeman is much less orthodox-looking than either Fisher or George McAlister, in leather jacket, boots and jeans. But hetalks much faster than either of them, does not look at you or pause to reflect, and does not shed any tears over the angst of senior year at Harvard College. His pessimism is much more detached. Americans are overeducated, he says, and although Harvard students always...
...talk about being self-indulgent and elitist. But now it seems important to enjoy what you're doing." He describes a summer he spent in New Hampshire working as a silversmith, supporting himself by selling jewelry on the Boston Common. But the silverworking equipment is all in a closet now, a closet Irons doesn't dare open for fear it will all spill out onto the floor of his already-crowded apartment...