Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...travels in a 707 jet that is just as big and just as plush as Nixon's. The Secretary's bulletproof limousine precedes him by air, as does a crew of advance men. Almost any service can be obtained for the Secretary in almost any place, his fame preceding him with amazing results...
...coming to the Harvard Sq. Theatre tomorrow. A neatly done and very humorous look at the underworld--the best entertainment around. It's playing with The Hostages, having its American premier here, a taut thriller about a kidnapping in Paris. Starring Bulle Ogier, of La Salamandre fame...
...going literary view, by contrast, is that Solzhenitsyn's fame depends on politics more than art, that he is a great man, but not a great writer. That is probably a shortsighted judgment. In America it will be necessary to wait for first-rate translations of his books, since each succeeding volume (Gulag will be no exception) stirs more than the usual storm about inaccuracies and betrayal of spirit that mars most translations. More important, one will have to see completed the already vast and elaborate mixture of fact and fiction through which he is attempting to restore...
Wanted: young journalist (under 40), bright, personable, quick-thinking, with warmth, charm and humor. Must be wide-awake at 7 a.m. Top pay (around $350,000 a year), plus travel, fame and social status. Women need not apply...
...small girls to bed. Between husband and wife are the stairs and the dark length of the hall, containing a coatrack, an umbrella stand and a chair. "Nobody ever sat on the chair and nobody ever stood long in the hall," Brennan writes. "It was a passageway-not to fame, and not to fortune, but only to the common practices of family life, those practices, habits and ordinary customs that are the only true realities most of us ever know and that in some of us form a memory strong enough to give us something to hold...