Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that at the opening of the pinon season"-the autumn harvest of protein-rich pinon nuts, during which Indians have been known to die of respiratory ailments contracted in the chilly mountains. Adee Dodge, a Navajo painter, added a peculiarly Indian note of resignation: "We publicly thank all the dear gods of this world for having caused such a windfall of moisture, much needed in this arid country...
...Dear God, I wished on a star two times but nothing happened. Now what? [Signed] Anna." The question, delivered with all the Promethean imperiousness of a six-year-old, is from More Children's Letters to God (Simon & Schuster), the second of two phenomenally successful compilations of juvenile missives addressed to the deity. Compiled by a pair of veteran writers of children's books, Eric Marshall and Stuart Hample, Children's Letters to God was published last year, has so far sold 340,000 copies. More Letters, only eleven weeks in print, has already reached...
...Tell Me Why." The letter writers have an innocent certainty about God's omnipotence. One young writer implores: "Dear God, if you made the rule for kids to take out garbage please change it. Maurice." Requests can also be quite sweeping: "Dear holy God: Would you make it so there would not be any more wars? And so everyone could vote. Also every body should have a lot of fun. Nancy." Still other letters demand moral support for quite personal problems. "Dear God, Do you let your children stay up for Get Smart. I have to know. Linda." Several...
...well-placed government official who loves his wife Kate (despite an occasional lapse involving his secretary), and cheerfully allows her to take in a widow with son, a divorcee with twins, a Dachau survivor and Latinist, and Octavian's brother, a failed India hand. The couple's dear friend, John Ducane, is a constant visitor, a wealthy bachelor lawyer who is so far gone in his infatuation for Kate that stolen kisses in the woods and furtive fleshly pressures can no longer keep him docile...
...section. His replacement at the Civil Rights Division will be Stephen J. Pollak, 39, a Dartmouth-and Yale-educated Chicagoan who has served as an assistant to the Solicitor General, legal counsel to the President's task force on the war against poverty and, for two years, as Dear's assistant...