Word: iv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atwood points out that the News got into deep trouble only when Frederick ("Ted") Field, Kay Fanning's son by her first marriage to wealthy Chicagoan Marshall Field IV, stopped subsidizing the paper last October. Fanning agrees that the loss of the $500,000 annual subvention was a jolt and that she is seeking that amount to keep the News afloat for a year. But she blames Atwood for most of her current trouble. Says she: "What it comes down to is that the Times has absolute management control with no accountability...
Oliver's Story begins in June 1969, 18 months after the death of Oliver's wife Jenny. Oliver Barrett IV has turned his back on his proper Boston family and an impressive textile fortune, and sunk himself into the defense of civil liberties, a basement apartment in Manhattan-and gloom. He goes to parties and he sits. When friends introduce him to pretty girls, he glowers and storms away. Finally, jogging in Central Park, he sees Miss Right II, a beautiful blonde named Marcie Nash, who captures his fancy by running faster than he does. They have dinner...
...calls it a day, moves back to Boston, takes over the family enterprises and finds that Oliver III, from whom he had rebelled in Love Story, has been, beneath that stuffed shirt, a closet liberal all along. But have no fear. The revelation is not enough to make Ollie IV happy, and as this fairy story for depressives ends in December 1976, he is as miserable as ever, working hard, jogging along the Charles and still mourning over Jenny. The lover of decent prose is equally miserable. Only Erich Segal is happy-$1.5 million richer for this minutia, soon...
...nothing in Simone's background quite prepares the reader for the rush of intense intellectuality and social activism that marked her twenties. After graduation from the Lycee Henri IV in Paris, Weil entered France's prestigious Ecole Normale as one of the first women admitted to the institute, and proceeded to scandalize professors with her ardent and polemical radicalism. She habitually carried a trade union bulletin in one pocket of a rumpled man's jacket and the French communist newspaper L'Humanite in the other. She unabashedly solicited donations to worker relief funds from incredulous instructors...
...Angels. Because burn patients require constant attention, the centers must have large staffs. Nurses must be at bedside 24 hours a day, and at least one physician must always be near by, to say nothing of a host of aides, ranging from cleaners to technicians who prepare the IV fluids. In some hospitals, because of the horrible nature of the injuries, few staff members remain in burn units for more than six months at a time. Those who stay on win the admiration of their colleagues. Says Spokesman Kenneth Dale of the Crozer-Chester Medical Center, a major burn facility...