Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young boy, I had always viewed my grandfather, who constantly scurried about the house turning off unused lights, water faucets, and the like, as a man of the past unwilling to face the bountiful future. But after reading Stefan Kanfer's Essay "The (Possible) Blessings of Doing Without" [Dec. 3] and my latest electric bill, I now know that I was disgracefully shortsighted. Indeed, who would have ever guessed that Grandfather was, in reality, a harbinger of things to come...
...find it very difficult to believe that Rose Mary Woods accidentally erased 18 minutes of tape [Dec. 10]. I have been an executive secretary for 20 years, have transcribed from many different kinds of recording machines, and cannot, in all good conscience, believe her statement that she pressed the wrong button. When working on a transcribing machine, you always have uppermost in your mind that you will press the right button because the recorded word is so very important-more so in her case than any other...
BONNIE RAITT--Through Sun. Dec. 23 at the Performance Center, The Garage, 8 and 10:30 p.m., $3 on weekdays, $3.50 on weekends...
...YORK DOLLS--Fri. Dec. 21 at the Orpheum...
...CHRISTMAS REVELS: IN CELEBRATION OF THE WINTER SOLSTICE, at Sanders Theater Dec...