Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose of this letter is just to inform the housewives who wonder what it would be like to hold down a full-time job that although the grass may seem greener, there is just as much frustration and monotony at times...
...election of delegates to the constitutional convention brought together 100 of the best people of grass-roots Montana. There were ranchers, farmers, businessmen, three professors, five ministers, 24 attorneys, a beekeeper, a retired FBI agent. Nineteen were women, most of them housewives and educators. The oldest delegate was Lucille Speer, 73, a retired librarian; the youngest was a graduate student, Mae Nan Robinson, 24. What they all had in common was virtually complete ignorance of the art of constitution writing and a somewhat unfounded self-assurance...
...Greece is essential to the security of NATO'S southern flank, and with his political enemies dispirited or exiled, Papadopoulos would seem to be reasonably secure. But is he happy? No Greek, of course, would ponder the question openly. Lecturing in Athens last week, West German Novelist Gunter Grass was willing to do so. "I went to Delphi today," Grass observed. "The oracle suggested that only when Prime Minister Papadopoulos, in his role of Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regent, also becomes the Archbishop of Athens will he resemble God and take joy in himself...
...natives trekked as much as two days to the polling stations. In the Highlands, many had greased themselves with pig fat as protection against the cold, and for the occasion wore bird-of-paradise plumes, as well as their usual garb of bark or grass. Among the voters were two tribes discovered only in the past six months (another clan of 83 natives, who saw their first white man just two weeks ago, made it clear they wanted no outside interference). The chief of still another tribe, somewhat bemused by the issues, said that he would take two self-governments...
Rocking Back and Forth, an absurd one-acter by Gunter Grass. At the Harvard Cabaret in Currier House. Come at 9:30 for 10 o'clock show...