Word: commoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...common view abroad was that the President omitted the two key elements: decontrol of U.S. crude oil prices so that domestic gasoline and heating fuel prices would rise to world levels (Americans still pay less than one half as much for gasoline and fuel oil as Europeans) and an emphasis on expanding nuclear energy. Commented Switzerland's Journal de Geneve: "The President feared, not without reason, that decontrol would push U.S. inflation to an intolerable level. But that also would have been a return to truth in pricing, which is the basis of American capitalism...
Dickson called Fiedler a symbol of the common man, adding that Fiedler took music out of the ivory tower and brought it to the people. Dickson added however, that Fiedler was a man of great self-effacement who wouldn't have thought much of such praise...
Saturday, July 7, prominent citizens: former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford; John Gardner, ex-chairman of Common Cause; the Rev. Jesse Jackson, director of Operation PUSH; Lane Kirkland, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO; Sol Linowitz, lawyer and occasional ambassador-at large; Barbara Newell, president of Wellesley...
Amid all the restraint, exhibitionism seems a common phenomenon. Stern tells of a group of Muscovite women who regularly compare how many flashers they have encountered in a day; one reported eight. More startling is the Soviet predilection for anonymous sex in such public places as crowded subways and buses. As Stern points out, this requires some gymnastic ability and an adherence to certain unwritten rules: when one man tried to strike up a postcoital acquaintance, the woman turned on him in fury and accused him of "gross immorality...
Nominating and balloting procedures appear to have more in common with political conventions than with literary panels. Independent committees from various parts of the business will select book candidates. The academy will distribute about 2,000 voting rights throughout the A.A.P. membership. In general, the bigger the company, the more votes it will be able to cast. Categories are no longer confined to such elite fare as poetry and belles lettres. New subjects include such mass-market items as religion and inspiration, selfhelp, cooking, crafts, gothic romances, historical novels, fantasy, science fiction, mysteries and westerns...