Word: partings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SALESMAN. The Maysles Brothers spent six weeks filming an actual group of New England Bible salesmen at work; the result is an arresting and occasionally appalling cinema verite record of one desperate part of American society...
...fitful, yet comparatively benign?and even dull?expanse of the "Eisenhower Years" today evokes considerable nostalgia. Eisenhower presided over what many now regard as America's belle epoque. In considerable part, the harmony was illusory, but it is scarcely less cherished for that. Millions of Americans who mourned Ike's death last week grieved partly for themselves as well, for their loss of the more ordered, seemingly tranquil period that Eisenhower embodied...
...prosecute the war in Viet Nam at a cautious but undiminished pace. The task of defending those decisions, however tentative they remain, has largely been handled by Nixon's Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, who has emerged as the Administration's principal confronter. Last week a good part of Laird's task was taken over by Secretary of State William P. Rogers, a man whom Nixon has described as "the best negotiator in the world...
...most part, the students merely giggled and answered that the word meant "sexual intercourse." But many of the 42,000 residents of the town questioned Mrs. Timbrook's divine inspiration. She insisted that her lecture's purpose was to prove that the word was "devoid of life and love." Nevertheless, parents besieged the superintendent of schools with irate phone calls and, at hastily convened meetings, vilified Mrs. Timbrook as a "whore" and "a disgrace to womankind...
...weekend of golf, New England has three courses that rank among the best in the nation. First is the Equinox in Manchester, Vermont, the greatest of New England's mountain courses. It's part of the Equinox Hotel, a comfortable spot to spend the weekend...