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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international oil fleets, and to fight off any possible Soviet invasion of Iran, until, they hope, reinforcements from the West could arrive. The generals see the current dissent as part of a grand Communist design, linked to Russian moves on the Horn of Africa and in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, a lot of the most sophisticated equipment, including British-made Chieftain tanks and F-4 Phantoms, was deployed around the capital rather than along the Soviet border, obviously to help protect the Shah...
...Levin, playwright and author (Deathtrap, The Boys from Brazil), on cooking: "I find it very hard to think of putting a lot of effort into something which is going to be gone...
Civility was dealt a further crippling blow by what the author Tom Wolfe calls "The 'Me' Decade." The social crusades of the '60s (the civil rights movement, the antiwar campaign, the counterculture) broke up a lot of institutional furniture but left little to replace it in the mid-'70s except intense, aggressive self-regard. People went to classes to learn what frequently turned out to be bad manners, the assertiveness training courses that held that you have to be pushy to get what you want. Manners were not the message of Robert Ringer's 1977 bestseller, Looking...
...much aggressiveness is exhausting. Today there seems a lot of evidence that Americans are tired of it. Stragglers are descending from the culture of the Ik (that east African hill tribe that, as Anthropologist Colin Turnbull found, amused itself by snatching food from the mouths of children and kicking the elderly into campfires). Remarks Judith Martin, who writes a satiric "Miss Manners" column for the Washington Post: "We're coming out of a psychologically self-oriented era. I think there's a craving for tradition, form, orderliness?and there's also a desire to be protected from everybody else...
...Foreign Service, she worked in Paris for David Bruce, who was helping to set up the Marshall Plan. When Bruce was named U.S. Ambassador to France, Tish became social secretary to him and his wife Evangeline. In 1951 she worked briefly for the CIA on "a lot of secret stuff." Then, having learned Italian from a contessa and a tape recorder, she landed a job as social secretary to the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, who became a close friend and is now godmother to Tish's 13-year-old daughter Clare...