Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cherie Johnson Seattle...
...enlivens the author's view of American writing. In a history of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he describes a long forgotten poet and overstuffed shirt. Appointed permanent secretary of the Academy, the litterateur wrote a formal acceptance to himself, signed: "Very respectfully yours, Robert Underwood Johnson...
Willard R. Johnson, an MIT professor who spoke at the demonstration, said yesterday he sought to denounce the Sullivan Six Principles, "which will be relevant only after there is an acceptance of basic human and political rights in South Africa...
...Girl Friday. Of the two Howard Hawks pictures playing around this weekend, this is the equally triumphant. In his man's world, Hawks and his screenwriter Charles Lederer twisted the tension in Hecht and MacArthur's wildman farce "The Front Page" by turning Hildy Johnson into a woman, and one who was trying to excise herself from the male society she had tailored herself into. She can't do it. Hecht and MacArthur's play proved that it was not indestructable when Billy Wilder made it move like a sludge barge. "His Girl Friday" is louder and faster than...
Strauss knows the ingredients of winning politics-people, loyalty, egos, energy-as did his Texas mentors, Lyndon Johnson and John Connally. For him, politics is people, not issues; winning, not scoring debating points; having fun, not studying position papers. As chairman of the Democratic Party from 1972 to 1976, he stitched together warring Democrats after George McGovern's defeat and handed Jimmy Carter a unified party. During the fall campaign, Strauss grumbled privately that Carter and his aides were not paying enough attention to him. There is still some residual mistrust, but relations steadily improved after he took...