Word: erful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began, Church's strategy was to offer a fresh face and funds just when the other candidates would presumably be starting to wear out. He has adhered to that strategy, but at this stage he finds Jimmy Carter still looking remarkably bushy-tailed and shrewd old Br'er Rabbit Hubert Humphrey poised to jump into the brier patch of presidential politics...
...species in the realm of make-believe. The Muppets are perky humanoids or cuddly monsters; Big Bird is barely the simulacrum of an ostrich. For that matter, Hoagland notes, Bugs Bunny was less obviously a member of the genus Lepus than were such precursors as Peter and Br'er Rabbit...
...found a solution, which he recounted last week to TIME Music Critic William Bender and Researcher Nancy Newman. "I was always lazy to practice the piano. I loathed it all my life, and somehow by miracle I got away with . . . er, without it. But now I practice more than ever before...
...blacker the berry, the sweet er the juice," Louis Armstrong often said. "Brown sugar" was a term of en dearment for chorus girls in Harlem in the '20s and '30s. Both sweet and sizzling, this loosely structured show is a song and dance ramble. During the edgy militant '60s, any black who danced was regarded as a toe-tapping Uncle Tom, and any black who sang was regarded as an evangelical sponge. What a treat it is to see blacks singing and dancing as if those skills were not blemishes on intellect or race but blessings...
Throw left and right and tertium quid o'er--Ring in Harvard's happy Thermidor. With a wreath to the Left and a wreath to the Right, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...