Word: life
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conquers her shyness by whirling her on the dance floor and warming her to a slow kiss. Jim's visit is the play's climax, the culmination of a search for a "gentleman caller" for Laura, a visitor from the outside who might show her another--married--life. And to Amanda, he is a mythically important guest, for he reflects the ultimate in preparing for the future, just as she once planned for the future by entertaining 17 gentleman callers in one afternoon. Like Amanda, who chose wrong from among her suitors by opting for the charming but elusive Wingfield...
Gauger has spent much of her life in motion. As a youth she traveled through North and South America with her father, a chemical engineer. Her childhood ambition was to become a foreign correspondent, but her economics degree from Swarthmore led to a job with TIME as a New York-based researcher in the Business section. She later moved to the news service, where she kept track of colleagues' travels, and eventually be came a reporter in the New York City bureau...
...question that has been brought to my mind by the suffering in Cambodia [Nov. 12]: How do we know that life on this earth is not another world's hell...
...Inside the High Court" [Nov. 5] leaves me with the feeling that perhaps our present system of allowing the President to appoint a Chief Justice for life should be scrapped. If the President appointed the Justices, but allowed them to select their own Chief to preside over the court prior to the opening of each new session, it would at least allow the Justices to work under leadership that the majority considered competent...
Under the live oaks, draped with Spanish moss, a small band of nine-and ten-year-olds scramble among the tombstones with the quick casual grace of children playing games in their own familiar schoolyard. In the midst of death-to reverse the proverb-there is life. And what life. Life in yellow T shirts with maroon-letter messages like "Whereinthehell is Gainesville, Fla.?" Life, chewing sugarless grape gum with great juicy smacks. Life about as far from death as life...