Word: mr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President cannot be faulted for firing public servants who have proved incompetent or out of touch, and the American people will completely vindicate Mr. Carter in 1980, when they fire him on the same grounds...
...Washington, D.C. The National Security Council has been hastily assembled to debate the American response to the breaking crisis in Asia. The president says. "Now where shall we start, gentlemen?" An aide raises a hand and breaks the silence, saying, "Mr. President, I believe we should formulate a series of balance sheets, starting with our adversary's partisan perceptions and leading to a yesable proposition we can present him with...
...made a mistake in not having a woman review the movie Dracula [July 23]. Mr. Schickel either did not grasp or simply ignored the film's best asset, Frank Langella's sex appeal. Any woman who sees the film will go "batty" over its leading...
...seats hours before he testified, and the Caucus Room was filled to capacity for his appearance before the Foreign Relations Committee. Thursday he came before the Armed Services Committee. Senators of both parties clearly were dazzled by Kissinger; their questioning was deferential and they frequently addressed him as "Mr. Secretary...
Charles Dickens drew Mr. Micawber straight from the outlines of his own bumbling, eternally optimistic father. When James Joyce created Simon Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, he took a cold look at his da and virtually transcribed the old man's boozy conversation. Examples proliferate, but the point is clear: lucky the writer who is blessed with a vivid parent. The childhood may have been hellish, but the material supplied by domestic drama can be invaluable. In the endless quest for characters that is a writer's lot, there...