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These petty squabbles take on significance beyond good gossip, though, if you consider the roots and the history of the immigrant, anti-Brahmin Boston from which they spring. Why, when parents from Southie, Eastie, Hyde Park and Charlestown hold a summit conference to discuss how to undermine the uppity "niggers" and, increasingly, "spics", are they also kicking each other under the table? Why, for example, does a once outspoken liberal like Mayor Kevin White have to uncommittedly walk a tightrope on the busing issue, protecting himself with a net of double-talking and triple-talking aides below...
Your article "The Unmaking of a President" [Aug. 30] makes Bennington College sound like a haven for immoral relationships and gossip. Bennington is a fine school. The educational policies have always been progressive, and we hope to keep them that...
...impetus for the new gossip and speculation was the 240-page report by a three-man Dutch commission headed by European Court Judge Andreas Donner, charging Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands with "unacceptable" behavior in his dealings with Lockheed. Although the commission found no proof that Bernhard actually received the $1.1 million that Lockheed allegedly paid him, the Dutch parliament last week somberly debated whether the 65-year-old royal consort should be prosecuted. A tiny left-wing faction favored prosecution. But Protestant Anti-Revolutionary Party Leader Willem Aantjes summed up the views of many: "History shows the faithfulness...
...million), is already in trouble. The show's audience is down 31% from 1973. Even so, Today still has twice the audience of either the sobersides CBS Morning News or ABC's fluffy Good Morning, America. But the ABC program, co-hosted by actors and spiced with gossip, has been stealing Today viewers, particularly younger ones. Today's new spontaneity is designed to win them back. Consequently, NBC'S search could end with Pauley. The honey-blonde from Indianapolis is young, poised and primly attractive. Viewer mail is running in her favor, and she even speaks...
...eight years. This seems a parallel to the fact that he was out of physical touch with my grandfather for ten painful (according to the book) years. I feel no bitterness toward my father, but I think it sad that I learn more about him by reading articles and gossip columns than from my own communication with him. I was truly moved by his book. I have longed to be with and to get to know him. I am admittedly hurt by his nonresponse. Perhaps someday I'll write a book about my relationship with my father...