Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostage homecoming, if it came on the eve of a closely fought presidential election, might put Carter in the White House for another four years. The prospect of a hostage deal, however, confronted his Administration with an acute foreign-policy dilemma. Because of obvious political as well as humanitarian considerations, the President could hardly reject any reasonable terms for the freedom of the captives. Yet any U.S. concessions, particularly on the shipment of military spare parts, might compromise Washington's neutral stance on the Persian Gulf war, thereby enraging Iraq and dismaying its pro-American supporters...
Where if everyone? On the eve of the Harvard-Princeton football contest, this serene campus looked like a neutron bomb test site. No such nefarious scheme prompted the desolation however. Yesterday was the final day of midterm exams here, and the entire student body--athletes excepted--seemed to have headed towards their respective decompression chambers...
Like his songs, Steve Forbert has plenty of surprises beneath the surface. Sure, the diffident 25-year-old Mississippian has his modest ways: "I'll have a go at talking," he says, wrapping up a thuddingly difficult New York interview on the eve of his first Japan tour and third album, "but what I do is write songs and sing them." Nonetheless, inside that denim-jacketed heart, behind those covertly smiling eyes and that radical pug nose, one senses big ambition. Alive on Arrival, his heel-kicking 1978 debut, moved zealous writers to compare Forbert with classic heartland American music...
...Christmas Eve 1962. Faint echoes of Silent Night twinkle through the frosty air. As Father Patrick J. Sullivan of the Roman Catholic film office recalls the scene, he is off in a small New Jersey parish hearing confessions. Suddenly he is summoned for an urgent phone call. Gregory Peck is on the line, wanting to know why on earth the church has rated his forthcoming film To Kill a Mockingbird unsuitable for teenagers. The priest explains that the ending seems to justify the sin of lying, even though it is in a good cause. As Sullivan remembers it, before Mockingbird...
...Eve Auchincloss