Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems as if Marabel Morgan's idea of "Total Woman" is alive and well -among the Mafia wives whose "marriages reflect old-country values of silence and obedience...
...Charleston. Earnest speakers followed, talking of "commitment to excellence" and "art must be part of the equation." As the music resumed, the dignitaries marched off the platform, thoroughly distracting the audience from some 16th century music for brass. The next piece had been commissioned by the festival, but Composer Morgan Powell's Windows turned out to be a muted, scurrying, atonal work poorly suited for the out of doors. When two military jets droned over during its course, the musical battle was entirely lost...
...William Morgan, a physical education professor and psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, says that runners "can develop a sensation of omnipotence. They begin to feel invincible. They run through red lights, challenge cars at a light. Their behavior becomes absolutely bizarre to their peers. They begin running 100 to 120 miles a week." There is something resembling addiction here, and runners tend to become edgy when their exercise schedules are interrupted...
...World Series victory. Five weeks into the season the Reds were blowing leads, big and small, failing to produce in the clutch, surrendering runs in bunches, falling down in the base paths and sputtering along under .500. "This has been a real team effort," observes two-time MVP Joe Morgan sarcastically. The kind that put the Reds at one point as many as 11½ games behind their traditional rivals in the National League's Western Division and the hottest team in baseball: the Los Angeles Dodgers...
Engaged. Acting Mayor of Chicago Michael Bilandic, 54, close friend of the late Richard Daley and heir apparent to his throne; and Socialite Heather Morgan, 34, executive director of Chicago's Council on Fine Arts. Bilandic, who topped five other contenders in the Democratic primary, is expected to win the June general election tp fill the remaining two years of Daley's term...