Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your review of Barbara Tuchman's book A Distant Mirror [Sept. 18], you mention that it was widely believed at the time that the bubonic plague of the 14th century was caused by poison put into the wells by Jews...
...address to the Quincy House Senior Dinner, I wrote to you on the subject of South Africa. At the time I was an undergraduate, and you apparently did not see any need to respond. Perhaps now that I have joined "the society of educated men and women," not to mention that of alumni, my thoughts will be considered worthy of attention, or at least of acknowledgment...
Buoyed by his success, Carter went out politicking with renewed zest. The mood of the crowds in North and South Carolina was so cordial that the President barely had to mention Camp David. He could count on someone else doing that for him. The most surprising example was a large ad in the Asheville (N.C.) Times that congratulated Carter for the Middle East breakthrough and concluded: "I am proud of you." The ad was paid for by Democrats who are supporting Republican Senator Jesse Helms for re-election even though Carter had come to the state to campaign for Helms...
...Catskill comics" who have never been able to break away from the Jewish resort circuit and play to outside audiences. Says the psychologist: "There are 30 to 40 of them you've never heard of, all making over $100,000 a year. They all say, 'Don't mention me as a Catskill comic...
...Paddy ought to take its place beside those of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John--except that Paddy suggests a cross between Puritan windbag Jonathan Edwards and Jerry Lewis. His characters pontificate and huff and puff and the whole thing is so shrill, pretentious and heavy-handed (not to mention boring) that it won Paddy an Oscar for his writing and it's called Paddy's Network. Which is just as well, because Sidney Lumet was the wrong director for Paddy's script--which could only have worked under a flaky, crazy director with a sense of visual satire, not Lumet...