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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then modern-language prayer book in 1549. All the reasons given against the 1979 book-"it's poor English, it's not traditional, it's poor theology"-were first used in opposition to Cranmer's book. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme chose...
...Herbert Marcuse at the University of California at San Diego, I remember his walking into class one day in 1969, wearing a button given to him by the conservative Young Americans for Freedom. The button read: TO HELL WITH COMMUNISM! Marcuse remarked to the class, "The reason I'm wearing this button is because I agree with it. I'd rather go to hell with Communism than to live here without...
Once aboard, not even Ackerman could remain dour. Lovingly fingering one of the telephone polelike masts, which will carry 6,441 sq. ft. of sail, he allowed his eyes to drink in the full magnificence of the vessel. An understandable pride began to creep into his voice: "I'm personally responsible for every penny in this schooner. I've put everything I own into her. It's quite an investment. I've got to get it back." How much? "That's my secret." The Leavitt will use cotton sails, partly because they are cheaper, partly...
...owners of Studio 54, Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, had been charged with tax evasion, obstruction of justice and conspiracy in June. The charges followed a raid on the disco in December 1978 in which Schrager had been arrested for possession of cocaine. Rubell's chief lawyer, Roy M. Cohn, onetime aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, said last week that in preparing for the trial Rubell told him that the discotheque's many famous visitors included Jordan and Powell...
...after working as a writer and newsreader at WTOP, Washington's all-news commercial station. Stamberg is the key to the program's ingratiating charm. In interviews she is confiding and insouciant, first disarming her subjects, then enlisting them in a delicious conspiracy. Her secret: "I'm not afraid to reveal myself. I like to laugh. I'm not embarrassed to enjoy what I do. The idea is to be a mensh." On Oct. 13, Stamberg will help Jimmy Carter field listeners' questions over NPR on the second call-in show of his presidency...