Word: evelyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily Beast was already telling his correspondent precisely what coverage he wanted: "A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side, and a colourful entry into the capital." Such was the quality of African reportage half a century ago, as described by Novelist Evelyn Waugh in his hilarious classic Scoop. To officials of modern-day African nations, as well as those of other developing countries of the so-called Third World, not enough has changed since Waugh's day. Western coverage of their affairs, they complain, is cursory, colored by colonialist idioms and preoccupied...
...cottage industry of publishing, into a respectable and highly lucrative branch of journalism. Hardly any activity nowadays is without benefit of a newsletter, from Abortion Trends to Zoo's Letter. Aficionados of cartoons and soap operas have their typewritten grapevines, as do owners of Pet Rocks, fans of Evelyn Waugh and students of the Kondatrieff wave theory of economics. Circulations range from a few dozen to 430,000, for the 54-year-old Kiplinger Washington Letter; subscriptions cost anywhere from nothing to $3,600 a year, for French Journalist Danielle Hunebelle's International Letter, a monthly economic report...
...Evelyn Hooker reported that three psychiatrists could not distinguish differences among 30 matched pairs of gay and straight men, as manifest in Rorschach tests. Miller and Hannum found no differences in MMPI scores (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), between matched groups of heterosexual and homosexuals in a 1963 study. William Horstman found similar lack of difference in MMPI scores nine years later. Mark Freedman reported similar outcomes in lesbian response to the Eysenck Personality Inventory. Using similar personality measures, Siegelman (1972) found no significant differences, and C.G. Watson found no evidence for the paranoia hypothesis in homosexuality. Research by Brenda Dickey...
...Evelyn Stone Irving, Texas
...Mary Frances Sweeney suddenly materialized in the fifth-floor hall of the Carter transition office. She used to be administrative assistant to the late Democratic Party chairman John Bailey, a fixture in the New Frontier and Great Society. Mrs. Sweeney is now helping to restart the Democratic engine. And Evelyn Irons, who went to the White House with Joe Califano in 1965 and worked for James Schlesinger through the Republican years, will journey back to her old White House haunts as secretary to the new energy czar...