Word: margarete
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Daughter of immigrants from Palermo, Costanza began her career as a switchboard operator. Over 24 years, she rose to executive assistant to a Rochester entrepreneur, and carried out a parallel career in city and state politics. For Vice Mayor Midge (she uses her formal name, Margaret, only on voting machines), politics led to an acquaintanceship with Carter-and, ultimately, her present job. Never married, Costanza lives alone in a Foggy Bottom condominium and devotes virtually all of her waking hours to the job. (The man in her life died last year...
...Theroux's Ayer Hitam, cultures no longer collide; they sort of frisk each other. "Between jungle and viability, there is nothing," he writes, "just the hubbub of struggling mercenaries, native and expatriate, staking their futile claims." Among them is Margaret Harbottle, one of the ubiquitous breed of freeloaders who roam the world as travel writers, and a toadish old sultan called Buffles, who keeps the past alive with elaborate polo parties. The village itself is a cultural stockpot of Chinese secret societies, Communist cells, Indian sports clubs and groups calling themselves the South Malaysian Pineapple Growers' Association...
Just a few days earlier, Margaret Trudeau had been sparkling at a Hollywood party with a beau, Bruce Nevins, head of the company set up to make America fizz with French Perrier water. Husband Pierre seemed the farthest thing from her mind. Not so. Last week she turned up at her parents' home in Vancouver and announced that she was "very optimistic" about a reconciliation with Canada's Prime Minister. "It's what we have always wanted," said Margaret. "We've been working in this direction, and are praying it will now work...
Moreover, the gerontocratic lobby likes to point to such distinguished individuals as Conductor Arthur Fiedler (82), Comedian George Burns (81), Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover (77) and Anthropologist Margaret Mead (75) as examples of people whose bright talents are burnished with age. As might be expected, Margaret Mead has advanced an intriguing theory about life expectancy in the U.S. "One reason women live longer than men," she says, "is that they can continue to do something they are used to doing, whereas men are abruptly cut off, whether they are admirals or shopkeepers...
...permit the defense to provide professional testimony on the merit of the poem or its author, a professor of literature and winner of numerous prizes, among them the Rockefeller Foundation's Atlantic Award. The judge did permit Drama Critic Bernard Levin of the Sunday Times and Novelist Margaret Drabble (The Realms of Gold) to testify as character witnesses. This led to some odd exchanges about Gay News-e.g., its publication of pictures from a sex manual for homosexuals...