Word: folke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...humor, which can sometimes be, Cohen notwithstanding, about as compassionate as a firing squad. As the Rev. James L. White, dressed in silver sequins and high-heeled silver boots, he takes on all black TV and radio preachers. The Rev. White disdains little black dollars from little black folk. Says he: "We're looking for the Billy Graham dollars." Changing into a medal-encrusted uniform, Pryor is Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada, the man of the mad, murderous giggle. "I love American people," says the field marshal. "I had two for lunch...
...winning many of the common folk, but he has been straining Washington's relations with their leaders. Notes former senior U.S. diplomat George Ball: "I think the Administration is pursuing the human rights business without fully taking all implications into account. To some extent it has become a stuck needle, getting in the way of a lot of things which might be more important in the long term." Others point to the selective morality of Carter's stand; he sharply assails some repressive countries, but he goes easier on those that the U.S. considers vital to its own interests. Chile...
...have won it." The feeling reveals something of his deep and continuing attachment to his Latin background. Although he has now lived in the U.S. longer than in Panama, he has not sought American citizenship. Asked by a reporter what it would be like to be an American folk hero, he replied with some astonishment: "I'm a Panamanian citizen. How can I be an American folk hero?" He explains: "I've kept my citizenship because to most kids down there I'm a national hero, someone they look up to. I think if I become...
Carew's climb to prominence-to being a folk hero in two nations-was long and slow, tempered by illness and early poverty. On Oct. 1, 1945, Olga Carew knew her baby was due and started the journey by train from Gatun, on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone, to Gamboa, where doctors in the clinic could attend the child's birth. But the baby would not wait, so Margaret Allen, a nurse, and Dr. Rodney Cline, a physician, both of whom happened to be aboard the train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse...
Divorced. Bob Dylan, 36, folk-rock superstar; and Sara Dylan, 34; after eleven years of marriage, five children; in Santa Monica, Calif...