Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sense of independence. Blonde and graceful, Susan has already shown that she is in the tradition of perky presidential daughters; last week she brought along to the inaugural ceremonies Current Beau Gardner Britt, 17, who will enter Virginia Polytechnic Institute this fall. Steve was admitted not long ago to Duke University, but before settling down in college, he has opted to take a year off to work on a cattle ranch in Utah...
Psychohistory, in fact, is nothing new. Numerous widely respected behavioral analyses have been done on world figures, notably Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson's profiles of Martin Luther and Gandhi, and Duke Political Scientist James David Barber's The Presidential Character, which contends that "active-negative" Presidents like Nixon face crises by "riding the tiger to the end." M.I.T. History Professor Bruce Mazlish adds in his 1972 psychohistory, In Search of Nixon, that because two of the President's brothers died in their youth, he continually struggles with "death fears"; to confront these, he may subconsciously seek out crises...
...Duke Ellington Orchestra, under the direction of Mercer Ellington, who must be Duke's brother, is making its first Boston appearance in Franklin Park in Dorchester Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. It's hard to imagine the concert being an entirely happy occasion because Duke's loss will probably be sadly apparent, but the band is still great and the concert is free...
...take a strike vote. In the vital coal industry, the opening salvos were fired in what seemed likely to become an all-out offensive by the United Mine Workers. The union briefly threatened to stage a nationwide work stoppage to pressure a subsidiary of North Carolina's Duke Power Co., which is resisting U.M.W. efforts to organize its workers...
...which he filled with assorted rascals for his novel The Confidence Man. It was no coincidence that in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn the shuck and the flim-flam cut across racial and class lines, from Nigger Jim's magical hair ball to the King and the Duke's pretentious ripoffs...