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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again seeing the South. Instead, he was offended by the "swiss cheese architecture" of ubiquitous Holiday Inns and equally inescapable Howard Johnson Restaurants where "music appears to emanate from the toilets." Crippled by age and pain, weighted down by his Churchillian frame. Wilson could still find the energy to laugh at it all, dismissing the landscape with a patrician arrogance that his energy and learning had long ago earned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Edmund Wilson | 6/15/1972 | See Source »

...laughter: "He who cannot laugh at himself appears ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Very Few Words | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

...state-run GUM department store, biggest in Moscow. Pat nibbled on a vanilla ice-cream cone, and bought scarves for "the girls." She had to keep calling for "my banker," an aide who bustled up with rubles. Asked how much she had spent, she replied with a laugh that she did not know. "Not much," offered Mrs. Gromyko, wife of the Soviet Foreign Minister. Pat walked across Red Square and posed for pictures in front of St. Basil's Cathedral. Asked if she had seen the President recently, she replied: "Listen, I haven't seen that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: What Nixon Brings Home from Moscow | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...Having been a member of the United Methodist Church for 30 years, I found much to laugh and cry at in "Methodist Malaise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1972 | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

...liked him, and I made him laugh. He made me smile and have good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Arthur Bremer's Notes from the Underground | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

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