Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feted by the who all's y'all of country. Roy Acuff sang about the Wabash Cannonball. Minnie Pearl taught him square dancin'. Johnny Cash gave the Ambassador his own guitar. Glamorous Barbara Mandrell did an impromptu duet with the envoy on banjo. Chai toasted mutual friendship, but he sashayed a diplomatic do-si-do around the hope behind the hoedown: whether and when his hosts can export American min ge to China...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law and one of the Harvard signatories, said, "I think it's important to express my sense that academic freedom has been violated, particularly since I consider myself something of a friend of President Silber. I didn't think friendship should stand...
...Statue of Liberty for three hours; others made an abortive raid on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. Far more ominous was the fusillade of anti-American rhetoric launched by Ayatullah Khomeini. Denouncing the U.S. as "the great Satan," he compared the relationship between the U.S. and Iran to "the friendship between a wolf and a lamb." U.S. officials asked for, and got, a third assurance from Bazargan that U.S. citizens in Iran would be shielded from attack...
...about her disease. Against the advice of a senior associate, her doctor (Marsha Mason) conducts what amounts to a seminar on cancer for her, through the months of harrowing chemotherapy that she undergoes. Most of what the girl learns is frightful, but she does not take fright. A strong friendship develops between the hollow-eyed teenager and the doctor who tries to save her and who, when that fight has failed, insists passionately that she be allowed to die with dignity...
...Their friendship would continue for 30 years and involve more than 3,300 letters 2,300 of them to Hick in Eleanor Roosevelt's scrawling hand. The letters, at Hickok's direction, ended up in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library with the proviso that they would not be opened until ten years after her death, which occurred in 1968. Many of them are included in The Life of Lorena Hickok, a biography by Doris Faber to be published by William Morrow & Co. in February. As a whole, they suggest an intimate relationship never previously considered...