Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another sour note in the Carter family week came when Gloria Carter Spann kept playing her harmonica in an Americus restaurant. Other customers complained. Police were called, vainly ordered the First Sister to stop, and finally arrested her for disorderly conduct...
...every point of historical comparison, Iran offers at least one anomalous or unprecedented detail. The role of mass electronics was rather weird, causing the McLuhanesque web to thrum with a new note. Ubiquitous transistor radios and cassette tape recorders with messages relayed over telephone lines to some 9,000 mosques all over Iran allowed a 78-year-old holy man camped in a Paris suburb to direct a revolution 2,600 miles away like a company commander assaulting a hill...
...they sensed the unseen presence of two other key figures at the deliberations. Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had not, of course, been invited to the talks. But their warm and well-photographed embrace in Tehran injected a note of urgency into Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's attempts to persuade Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egypt's Premier Moustafa Khalil to resolve their differences on the treaty before it was too late...
...indeed write anybody: old friends like Lowell, literary figures like Katherine Anne Porter and Walker Percy, college chums, priests, nuns, questioning students, aspiring authors, fans, cranks. She described her response to a flirtatious note from a man in Cincinnati: "I wrote [him] that I didn't think I'd like him a bit but he would be crazy about me as I had seven gold teeth and weighed 250 pounds." The diversity of her correspondents brought...
...question are Boston telephone operators in the year 1919, who in an effort to win recognition of their struggle with the director of the nationalized phone system, shut down the Beantown exchanges. Although the strike spread throughout New England, history has tended to give the event only a brief note in comparison to the more notorious Boston Police Strike of the same year. This original production combines a good deal of music with its dramatic treatment. At the Newbury Street Theater in Copley Square...