Word: howe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ford recently instructed Chef Henry Haller on how to make pot roast. "With turnips?" asked the amazed chef. She insisted: "That's just the way we have it at home." The relaxed style does not stop at the White House gates. Mrs. Ford, with her personal assistant Nancy Howe, who affectionately calls the First Lady "Petunia," runs many of her own errands. After taking a watch in for repairs or buying cosmetics at the cut-rate drugstore, she and Nancy pull up at a Roy Rogers and stand in line for their fried chicken...
...incarnations, half a century apart, the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., played rich roles in the nation's history. Before his first in auguration, Abraham Lincoln brought his family to stay at the original Willard, which opened in 1847 within two blocks of the White House. Julia Ward Howe wrote The Battle Hymn of the Republic at the hotel. President Ulysses S. Grant had a special chair in the lobby, where he used to sit and smoke for hours while scandal crackled around his administration...
...staff headed by Senior Editor Otto Friedrich is winnowing 18th century chronicles for eyewitness reports, memoirs and documents to enable writers and researchers in the regular TIME sections to evaluate the news as they do today. Gathering illustrations for the issue may pose some difficulties since newsmakers like Admiral Howe are not available for photographs. The Nation section will, of course, report on the Declaration itself, among many other Revolutionary developments. World is scheduling stories on the European reaction to the embattled American "national liberation front," and on Captain James Cook's plans for a third voyage of exploration...
What do Macdonald's windmills have in common as the tiller sees them? Humbug. Cant. The special form of dishonesty that betrays itself as lack of style. Irving Howe once complained that if Jesus were to deliver the Sermon on the Mount tomorrow, "Dwight Macdonald would write that while 'Mr. Christ makes some telling points' they suffer from syntactical confusion and 'a woolly, pretentious style.' " Macdonald's answer: "Were the Sermon woolly," that would be "my reaction, and I should be right, since in that case the Sermon would not be the great moral...
...fight off Parrish's long-arm grab. So the celebrated porn actress came at last to Memphis. "Well," she said after being arraigned, "the 50th anniversary of the 'monkey trial' in Tennessee is coming up, so I guess they had to do something." Said Robert Howe, executive director of the Maine C.L.U.: "Actors and writers and artists who have no control over where their work is displayed will now be afraid their film or book or painting may end up in Memphis and result in their being dragged off to the Bible Belt for trial...