Word: dears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dear Comrades...
Before he went to war in 1965, he is fond of telling visitors, the raciest thing in the media was Clark Gable telling Vivien Leigh: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Returning to America from the P.O.W. camps, he had to ask his wife what a massage parlor was. He still sees explicit sex as an "alien element" in our heritage. He passionately wants "to restore patriotism, especially among opinion formers, the people in the media and education." And he is unfazed by opposition, even mockery of his convictions for being naively overwrought...
...darling of his party's young hotbloods. This is the lesser half of an in-depth study in remorse. As much a philanderer as a workaholic, Kitchen neglected and betrayed his wife to the point of heartbreak and death. The memory haunts him ("Why did you die, my dear?"), and as he whimpers and then howls his wife's name twice, "Ellen ... Ellen!" toward the icy stars, the play ends in anguish...
...professors--Oliver Wendell Holmes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow--entertain their young audience. In the afternoon, the adults crowd into Sanders: Harvard's President Charles Eliot begins the program by calling Cambridge "a famous town, an historic town, and, what is more, a town which is perfectly sure to be dear to English-speaking peoples for generations to come." Cambridge mayor James W. Hall returns the compliment: "It is especially fitting we meet here today, having for our host an institution which, since the beginning of its history, has been so largely identified with the civil, intellectual and religious welfare...
...Dear Mr. President:" wrote President Bok to President Reagan in a letter dated April...