Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mike Nichols and Elaine May did a routine about the first Jewish President. Phoned by his mother and scolded for not having called her, "President" Nichols pleads: "Mother, I was choosing a Cabinet. I didn't have a second." Retorts "Mother" May: "It's always something." Afterward, Miss Lillian insisted: "I'm not that kind of mother...
...everyone adjusted at once to the transformation. Hamilton Jordan, Carter's longtime aide, allowed as how it would be difficult to go from calling him Jimmy to the more formal Mr. President. After the Inaugural speech, Miss Lillian protested, "I don't like it. I don't like everybody calling him Mr. President." To set his family at ease, Carter, in a private moment in a room in the Capitol a few minutes after the swearing-in, asked if they had ever seen his 18-month-old grandson Jason imitate him. "Come on, Jason, smile like Jimmy...
...high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say, "We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles...
...hill in Jackson, Miss., Diana Berg flagged down a milk truck and warned the driver against going so fast. "Oh, don't you worry about me," he said. "I'm from Illinois. I can handle this stuff. Want a joyride?" Berg declined, then watched the truck slam downhill into a Volkswagen and another truck. Amazingly, no one was hurt. Says she: "My jaws were frozen into a laugh for about an hour...
...leaping in where Freud would fear to tread. But she does not shun legitimate speculation: Stevens' oblique, sensuous references and metaphors "bear deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form, as an honorable 19th century...