Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...festivities, why not the usual arm pumping and back thumping? The hordes of loyal Democratic Party workers who gathered in the Sherman House hotel to await the returns were uncommonly solemn and silent. Ward bosses did not barge exuberantly into Mayor Richard Daley's tightly guarded inner office. They slunk in sheepishly or stayed away altogether...
...columnist is not even a member of Washington's tight Mormon inner circle, though he attends services regularly and serves as "a home teacher," visiting Mormon families regularly for counseling and prayer. He is a bit too liberal and splashy for Mormon leaders like Senator Wallace F. Bennett and Hotelman J. Willard Marriott. Church etiquette requires that he be called "Brother Anderson," but some of the brethren choke on the words...
...force them to take in blacks; it also permitted parents to opt out of busing plans. Another reason is a complicated system of "middle schools" and "junior schools" that are supposed to feed children into the high schools. There are only four middle schools, all in the inner city, and only a few high schools are geared to take their students. As a result, most inner-city black children end by riding to black high schools...
...somebody else was Mary Queen of Scots in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda-and everybody got the message. In a career distinguished by a quest for new music and new roles, Maria is one of her best finds yet. Sills shows a thoroughgoing grasp of both the personal inner core and the queenly outer charisma of her character. Emotionally it is as if Sills were living in 16th century Tudor England. Indeed, that may well be the case these days. She is in the midst of performing a trilogy by Donizetti that began last season when she sang Elizabeth...
...thinks that Sylvia Plath is an extraordinary poet; she finds it particularly exasperating that Sylvia Plath should be made into a heroine of Women's Lib, since it seems to her that there is nothing heroic about a poor, tormented, brilliant woman who was driven by the terrible inner pressures of her own psyche-not the pressures of the feminine role-to kill herself...