Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Money Power. How did Mrs. Caine survive? By bitter flippancies scribbled down on yellow pads late at night ("How's my master plan, God dear? What have you got coming up?"). By folk wisdom, like "Move the body" (she pedaled endless miles on a stationary bicycle). By psychiatric therapy. By working hard at her job. By just waiting out the ordeal. (She has not remarried.) How would she do it differently if she had to do it again? She would talk about death more openly to her husband, to her children. She would not try to stiff-upper...
...Dear Ellen Cooper, it's simply not true that it's unusual for a professional to show interest in Harvard Theatre...
...annotated index of the documentary or taped evidence accumulated by the committee staff in the six months that it has probed 41 allegations of wrongdoing-including obstruction of justice and complicity in the Watergate cover-up?by Nixon. The other binder held the material that Majority Counsel John Dear's staff presented to the committee during its first three-hour session. It amounted to a recitation of the events that led up to the break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. More binders would follow as Dear's staff outlined...
...cheerfully convinced that he teaches only what the Bible does, is less concerned with his critics than with administering a budget that should reach $8 million this year. The money goes into a 200-acre headquarters complex in Oak Brook, Ill., where a staff of 70 answers 200 spiritual "Dear Abby" letters per month, prepares advanced seminars and is developing a national training center for pastors and schoolteachers, as well as a "character curriculum" that he hopes many colleges will adopt. According to Gothard, they should scrap conventional subjects and rebuild courses around 49 virtues, including diligence, loyalty and tact...
...thoroughly decadent pair. In Scars on the Soul she permits them to coast through the usual romantic adventures, playing around with love, despair and death. From time to time, however, she interrupts the narrative with private memories and uneasy rhetorical questions. Samples: "Who reads Proust?" and "What about you, dear readers, what are your lives like...