Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he does not now possess power, he still studies, thinks about it. Almost as if by instinct rather than command, his mind seizes on new information and assembles it into strategies and tactics for international and domestic leadership...
...terminal on sacred Indian land along the California coast. Instead of sitting around the campfire singing "It's a Treat to Beat Your Feet on the Mississippi Mud," they learn union songs. Even traditional camp activities-sports, crafts, horseback riding-are pursued with a radical ideology in mind. "Swimming cannot be separated from the larger issues of society-the role of youth and the idea of competition," harrumphs Hayden. Chimes in Fonda, recalling the "authoritarian" camps of her youth: "We are interested in perfecting skills, not just in being No. 1." The Hayden/Fonda camp is "the better world...
...eminent goldbug, a professional pessimist, Deak understands the psychology of people who have lost faith in mere money and paper shares. Critics, including many stockbrokers, say that Deak has a great 17th century mind, that his views would make Marie Antoinette look like Bella. Abzug. But his opinions are important, since so many nervous people share them...
...husbands, and they didn't work out. Well, a couple of weeks ago, she got married again. This time, it was a Russian! And not your ex-duke kind of Russian you see around some of the smart places in Paris and Miami Beach, mind you, but an ordinary Commie, if you'll pardon my French. I'll call him Sergei...
Needless to say, we were all terribly shocked. With all the right sort of people to marry, Christina picked out this person with brown shoes! Nothing we could say would change her mind, so she went up to Moscow and married him in this drab, crummy ceremony. But just before she was due to go off to the Siberia Hilton or some place for a candlestein honeymoon, something happened, and Christina suddenly left Moscow and showed up at her villa in Athens. Well, I haven't had a chance to get through to her on the phone from here...