Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon was meant to be bloodless, to be cold, to inspire no feelings except gnawing anxiety and perhaps grudging respect at his sheer resiliency. As soon as the crowds forget who he was and what he did--as soon as they forget the dike bombing and the "secret war" and the wiretappings and the dirty tricks--as soon as they remember only the "New Nixon," humble and repentent, brushing back the bitter tears to offer his countrymen some sage advice--then the man will have won his biggest prize...
...historically accurate garb and gear, right down to pewter buttons. Otto de Pierne, a chemical researcher from East Norwalk, Conn., spent $7,000 outfitting himself as a surgeon, even collecting the original bottles for 118 drugs carried by 18th century battlefield medics, as well as all the drugs-except opium-which he had to simulate. At Monmouth, he put on his 18th century glasses but apologized for wearing modern shoes. He also brought along his colonial desk, with quill pen and linen paper...
...experts in the U.S., Israel and Egypt, rests on three assumptions. One is that continuing Israeli rule over the West Bank and Gaza, with their overwhelmingly Arab populations, would prove impossible in the long run. The second is that substituting an imposed Jordanian and/or Egyptian sovereignty over the area, except during a brief transition period, would equally frustrate Palestinian nationalist yearnings, and thus preclude a genuine Middle East peace. The third is that Israel's security needs could be met without its troops occupying the West Bank and Gaza...
...Petros Kalkanis and Naval Officer Teddy Avaliotis, whom she marries. Among other Sunday adventures, she is assaulted by her husband's mad father Costa. Kazan, a director of note (A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, America America) tends to write scenarios rather than novels. That might be acceptable except for the fact that his dramatis personae seem to be created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist's ear for Greco-American intonations is uncanny, and his destructive bitch goddess is so lethal that her comeuppance deserves the kind of cheers villains received when they...
McInally left with everything except an Ivy League football championship for himself, and while McDermott was no glamour boy, his glamorous moments as a junior during the 1975 season copped the Crimson its first out right championship ever...