Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sisterhood was there in full force, and also some brotherhood. To raise funds for the faltering Equal Rights Amendment, Shirley MacLaine, Bella Abzug, Carol Burnett, Robert Altman, Chevy Chase, Norman Lear and 300 or so others dined on chicken and chili at Mario Thomas' place in Beverly Hills. "It's a life and death struggle,"' boomed Abzug. Burnett declared: "I've always been apolitical, but this is a moral issue." Besides, as she says, "I have an investment in the future. I have three daughters...
...terror Macbeth surely is, but a figure of pity never. On or off the stage, worldly men of vaulting ambition rarely evoke pity. And Macbeth is the worldliest of Shakespeare's tragic heroes. He is too much the pragmatist ever to have divided up his kingdom as Lear does, or fall prey to jealousy or doubt as do Othello and Hamlet. While Fate does bring him low, Macbeth's power ploys are realistic assessments of how to seize and hold the crown. But he is afflicted by conscience of a kind. Just prior to killing the gentle Duncan...
...reactionary anthology," and he has succeeded. Defining light verse is like breaking the idea of a butterfly on the wheel, and Amis wisely avoids stating last words on the subject. But his general categories are small enough to exclude Chaucer, Skelton, Dryden, Pope, Burns and most of Edward Lear ("whimsical," Amis says, "to the point of discomfort"). Amis wants poems that raise "a good-natured smile." He argues that "light verse need not be funny, but what no verse can afford to be is unfunny." He stresses the technical hurdles that the light poet must erect and then clear; since...
DIED. William Lear, 75, restlessly creative inventor whose farsighted triumphs include the first practical car radio, the autopilot for airplanes, the eight-track stereo cartridge and, more recently, the Learjet; of leukemia; in Reno. Throughout a prodigious career that eventually netted him more than 150 patents, Lear delighted in tackling "impossible" problems. Intrigued by the prospect of designing his own plane, Lear severed connections in 1962 with the electronics firm he had founded, anted up $11 million of his personal fortune, squeezed bank loans and tapped his children's trust funds to finance production of the small, streamlined...
...payoff to the anti-MPLA forces, over a million dollars, was pocketed by Mobutu of Zaire. Stockwell further notes just how shaky Mobutu's regime is, his reliance on American aid and on French and Belgian and Morroccan troops to put down rebellions. Stockwell tells the story of the Lear jet that belonged to UNITA, given to its leader by a London/Rhodesian investment firm in order to guarantee access to Angola's minerals. There's the case of the CIA advisers in Angola, against the wishes and without the knowledge of anyone in the executive branch. And the Congressional briefings...