Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ervin had long promised his wife that he would quit, and his decision was a Christmas present for "Miss Margaret." As Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield once remarked: "Sam sticks pretty close to his wife and the Constitution. He's married to both." Ervin's love affair with the Constitution has been lifelong, ardent, unflagging-and finally requited. In an hour of constitutional peril, the Senate turned to Ervin to chair the Watergate investigating committee...
...beings, but they are living in an epoch when even the basic assumptions can no longer be taken for granted. It is a time when sexual roles are no longer sharply delineated. It is a time of assaulted institutions, among others the family, which has long since become in Margaret Mead's words, "totally isolated, desperately autonomous." When a family exists at all, that...
...Museum of Modern Art assembled and commented on by the director of the museum's photography department. There is, naturally, a wide choice of subject. The pictures were taken over a period extending roughly from 1850 to the present; the photographers include the likes of Pioneer Julia Margaret Cameron, Dorothea Lange, Cartier-Bresson, Brassa'i, Robert Doisneau, Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon. Szarkowski's pic-ture-by-picture text ranges from brilliant and supple observations to what can fairly be described as academic twaddle. People who take photography seriously will want the book because, even at his worst...
...MARGARET T. GALLAWAY...
While in the White House, Harry Truman once wrote to a music critic who had snickered at Daughter Margaret's singing that the fellow would be needing a jockstrap if they ever met. Now it turns out that advancing age and tranquil retirement in Independence, Mo., did nothing to sweeten the tongue or soften the wrath of the 33rd President of the United States. In a book appropriately titled Plain Speaking, to be published in February (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Truman displays all of his oldtime fire...