Word: coversation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THE PRESENT COLLECTION of letters--edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann--covers the years up to Virginia's marriage to Leonard Woolf. The editors inform us that five more volumes will be published annually from 1975 to reproduce the rest of her correspondence. This first volume is of interest...
Readers who examine these letters for evidence of Woolf's fits of insanity will be disappointed. There are only the slightest variations in style and tone. Generally the onset of her breakdowns (she had two during the years this volume of her letters covers) was marked by a particular bitchiness...
Though whites in Salisbury do not like to admit it, Rhodesia is already at war along its entire 800-mile border with Mozambique, from the Zambezi River in the north to the Limpopo in the south. Local villages have been terrorized by black guerrillas, buildings burned, cars ambushed on lonely...
That issue sold furiously. People were apparently relieved to see a woman spilling out of a bathing suit after weeks of Watergate faces squinting and grimacing under the Newsweek cover logo. In the eleven weeks before the Singles story, Newsweek had printed eight Watergate covers, splashed with pictures of John...
Now, 154 covers later, Newsweek has shattered the sales record of the Singles issue with a cover featuring . . . three pictures of a dejected-looking Richard Nixon. That cover, which ran last week, was promotion for the first installment of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's "The Final Days," an account...