Word: musts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of the four-year student turnover, candidates must recruit the Harvard voter for every election. Sullivan's impressive vote total proves the campaigning is worth it, though. Two years from now, halls and entryways should be littered with literature and bustling with candidates, courting student voters for the first time ever. The increase in campaigning will also make the Harvard voter more sophisticated; chances are no one will be able to engineer a win the size of Sullivan's in future elections. "Politicians will have to start paying attention to the demands of students." David Sullivan said...
...narrators of The Accompanist and The Fig Tree must deal with the doubts of the husbands they have cuckolded. In the first story, a pianist leaves a package of apple tarts at her lover's apartment. She arrives home dessertless for a dinner party to which her lover is invited. The husband clowns around, sings bawdy songs and regrets the missing tarts which, he is told, were left at a rehearsal studio. How much does he know? How much does he want to know? There are no answers, only a delicate tension created by Pritchett's great talent...
...compete in body-building contests where top prize goes to the best-proportioned, shapeliest and firmest body. Women can easily take off a few pounds in the first month after they start working out, says Tim Kimber, general manager of Gold's. But to qualify for competition they must buckle down to rigorous, five-times-a-week training. "Women can actually mold their figures the way men do," says Snyder, who is not alone in his distaste for more heavily muscled women. One judge at a recent competition sent a contestant running from the stage in tears when...
...relied on a heaping measure of theatricality. Royal pageantry evolved not entirely to oil the vanity of the overlords but also to satisfy the human craving for symbolic ceremonials. The politician's own requirements in a democracy carried things a step further. To win a constituency, the politician must first gather a crowd and turn it into an audience. Enter show biz. In the old days the string band on the courthouse square became as indispensable for that purpose as are the musical groups and superstars in this day of mass culture. Says Joanne Woodward of theatrical personalities...
Such news has become commonplace and so is usually received without reflection. But it must be time to wonder how the promiscuous mingling of politics and show business affects the public's capacity to distinguish between imagery and substance. The question is not idle when asked about a society in which Actor John Wayne and Comedian Bob Hope could wind up widely admired not only as entertainers but as political philosophers...