Word: lynda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...version of Handel's Messiah (see Music). That evening, the program shifted from Handel to Hope as the comedian staged a preview of his Christmas show for the troops in Viet Nam. The audience included the Nixons, the Agnews, Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland, the Henry Fords, Lynda Bird Robb, Presidential Barber Steve Martini and a gaggle of other guests...
...blades of the backup helicopter for President Nixon's Marine One whirred to a stop, the chopper door popped open, and out onto the brand-new White House West helipad stepped the whole Johnson family: Lyndon and Lady Bird, Pat and Luci Nugent, Major Charles Robb and Lynda. They had come all the way from Texas for the latest extravaganza by Richard Nixon Productions Inc., a 61st birthday moveable feast for L.B.J. that started in San Clemente and ended in the new Redwood National Park, 800 miles farther up the California coast. It was an unlikely summit meeting between...
...Lynda, asked why she didn't have any affairs, replied that she couldn't have an affairs because she never took her gloves off: the remark was found the very essence of "camp...
...gloves, for instance: they charmed everyone. When asked why she wore them she said it was because she bit her nails until they bled. "Lynda's gloves" became a kind of family joke--among dozens of people...
...Doris Lessing-unabashed ex-Communist, uncompromising feminist, the world's most fearless woman novelist? Yes, if you listen carefully. "In time, many people who are now called schizophrenics won't be called ill at all," she continues. "Like Lynda, they are depressed, with good reason to be. All this categorization! Putting a label on something is a way of stopping thinking about it. We should ask psychiatrists many more questions...