Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cynthia Griffin Wolff and Ann Lane, two biographers of women, will speak at the first of the Radcliffe Forum's Charlotte Perkins Gilman workshops on December...
Just how trying a dilemma the Helms case presented to Atty. Gen. Griffin B. Bell and company became apparent last week. Justice clumsily announced that the department had seen fit to work out a very special deal with the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). As Helms and his renowned attorney Edward Bennett Williams walked into a federal district courtroom last Monday to file a nolo contendere plea to two misdemeanor counts against Helms for failing to testify fully before a Senate committee four years ago, Bell at that moment was informing President Carter of his "just...
Attorney General Griffin Bell managed to shoehorn an energy pitch into a speech to the National Security Traders Association in Boca Raton, Fla. Speaking at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Va., Defense Secretary Harold Brown found a way to deplore the fact that the nation "relies on overseas sources for half the oil we consume." On a swing through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano strayed from his talks on welfare problems to argue that the poor would suffer most if the Senate failed to approve Carter...
...chimera, the griffin, the manticore and the sphinx are familiar fauna that flourish outside traditional biology. Now it appears that unfamiliar flora grow outside of conventional botany. Or so says the protean Leo Lionni, 67, teacher, painter, sculptor, former art director of FORTUNE and author of a dozen delightful children's books. To illustrate, Lionni has literalized Marianne Moore's "imaginary gardens with real toads in them"-and then removed the toads. What remains is a series of never-were "parallel plants," a vegetable kingdom with members rooted beyond the fences of nature and logic...
...granite steps, huddled in bed rolls or stamping their feet to ward off the autumn chill. By midmorning the crowd had doubled and doubled again, stretching across the court plaza all the way to First Street. Photographers maneuvered to capture celebrities as they arrived, including Senators Robert Griffin and Thomas Eagleton, and Mrs. Earl Warren, widow of the Chief Justice who presided over the historic school desegregation decision of 1954. As the crowds pressed forward, young demonstrators waved picket signs and chanted slogans...