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> The 1970 affair between Margaret Housen, 35, a secretary in Washington, D.C., and Angier St. George Biddle Duke, son of Angier Biddle Duke, former U.S. ambassador to Spain and Denmark, would hardly have ranked as a celebrated coupling had not Housen contracted gonorrhea. When doctors told Housen that she probably...
Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion analyst, finds a different emphasis: "What we're seeing is not a revolt against Washington and the Eastern establishment. It's simply that the fresh faces make sense." Despite the popularity of some incumbents, says Yankelovich, there is "an anti-incumbency mood, one...
When you feel like chucking it all and indulging something other than your brain in the next couple weeks, but don't have the guts for hard core debaucherie, you could try WHRB's euphimism. Orgies. It's anybody's guess what goes on down at the radio station during...
Laconic Anticlimax. Her moment of truth with HUAC forms the heart of this slim memoir, Hellman's first-and long-anticipated-public word on her brush with McCarthyism. Two earlier autobiographical volumes, An Unfinished Woman (1969) and Pentimento (1973), ignored this subject. Yet when the crucial scene in Scoundrel...
"The books you read are written by the people your dean doesn't have the guts to hire," Kozol said, citing as an example the work of Paolo Friere, an educator whom Harvard did not tenure in the late 1960s.