Word: jess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jess Ritter, a mod.-lit. man out at San Francisco State, is sitting down to a greasy cheeseburger when into his office walk two students, Space Daisy and Victor. "You see," says Space Daisy, offering Ritter a cream cheese and chopped nut on pumpkin bread, "Victor also makes puppets, and his friend Street Eddie snoots Super-8 movies. Now what we want to do is make a puppet movie about Slaughterhouse-Five, showing Billy Pilgrim and Montana Wildhack on Tralfamadore instead of my writing this term paper on Vonnegut...
...Monstrous, painful, agonizing, a bottomless abyss of malice, deceit, fraud and greed," said Novelist Taylor Caldwell (Dear and Glorious Physician) of her 72 years on earth. She hoped there was no such thing as reincarnation, she told Occultologist Jess Steam (Edgar Cayce-The Sleeping Prophet), so she wouldn't have to go all through it again. Just to see if it hadn't happened once or twice before, though, they agreed to have her hypnotized. According to Stearn, who has just published a book about the phenomenon (The Search for a Soul), Miss Caldwell began recalling no less...
...next race, the 200-yd individual medley, gave the Crimson a 22-21 lead it continued to stretch as freshman sensation Jess Yntema led from start to finish to establish a new Harvard school and pool record time of 1:59.1. Dave Brumwell, whose record Yntema broke, completed the second straight Harvard sweep...
...political science, M.I.T.; Hartford N. Gunn Jr., president, Public Broadcasting System; Richard Harwood, assistant managing editor, the Washington Post; Louis Martin, editor, the Chicago Defender; John B. Oakes, editorial page editor, the New York Times; Paul Reardon, associate justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; Richard Salant, president, CBS News; and Jess Unruh, a Democratic leader now running for mayor of Los Angeles...
...reign on the Democratic ticket. At times his manner was a bit too bluff and hearty, sometimes wistful, but rarely if ever self-pitying. "For seven days in a row, I was under the greatest pressure I've ever been in my life," he told TIME'S Jess Cook with a certain satisfaction. "Being my own teacher, I give myself passing, indeed very high marks...