Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flocked to his big house on the Jamaicaway to pay their last respects. No longer does the Irish mayor receive his people, solve their problems, dole out money from his own pocket for funerals, make the round of wakes, bully the bankers and stomp into the Somerset Club to confront the State Street money. What passes for Irish politicians nowadays are an Ivy League educated mayor who lives on Beacon Hill and hangs out at the Ritz and an ugly caricature of a Congresswoman whose reputation is based on a record of bigotry that would have shocked the people...
Admirers of Mrs. Lindbergh's style, which tends toward what might be called Ladies' Magazine Transcendental, will be charmed enough by this sort of thing. Others may read on until they confront a footnote to real and romantic history-the meeting of Anne and Charles Lindbergh, who stayed with her father, U.S. Ambassador Dwight Morrow, and the family in Mexico City in 1927 just after "the Lone Eagle's" famous flight. "What did I expect?" Anne asks her diary. "A regular newspaper hero, the baseball-player type." What she found was "a tall, slim boy in evening...
...always used to go on about how people who were smoking grass because they didn't want to confront life and their responsibilities and their problems and so on. You know, the old "drugs for escape" thing that most adults believe. Shit, man, there wasn't any life to confront in that town...
Just a week ago, Herrnstein refused to speak at the University of Iowa when a hostile crowd of about 400 students led by the SDS prepared to confront...
...better job and a better life, Coles went with them and chronicled their exodus. The South Goes Nort, the third volume of Children of Crisis, documents the adjustments a rural people entering an urban, industrial setting must make in the face of the bewildering array of changes that confront them...