Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really make the rules. His weekly columns written with Ridgeway--an Institute for PolicyStudiesradical--under the heading of Surplus Value (economic issues) and The Greasy Pole (presidential politics), are generally thoughtful and serious pieces. Cockburn saves his true Private Eye spirit for the Press Clips. Also featured are "Dear Dr. Pressclips; Helpful Hints for Harried Hacks" (where Marshall Frady was advised that his case of "penny a word" was terminal...
...Dear Friend...
...Dear Mr. Heiskell...
Sherlock Holmes never said, "Elementary, my dear Watson...
...stories here revolve around fussy, aging bachelors. The men are, as one tart-tongued female claims, typically Irish victims of "the whole monstrous regiment of wom en from Old Mother Hubbard, and Old Mother Goose, and Holy Mum the Church, down to Mother Ireland and your own dear departed and long-suffering Mother Machree." Thus in Mur der at Cobbler's Hulk, a retired travel agent lives in fastidious loneliness near a remote village. A woman attacks his prim self-sufficiency. "No love. No drink. No friends. No wife. No children. Happy man! Nothing to betray...