Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Globe syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman recently wrote in an article about the late Hubert Humphrey that "It's ultimately as difficult to be a totally content person in an unjust society as it is to enjoy a banquet surrounded by starving people." It is difficult to believe that Jimmy Carter is not content in his way or that Jerry Brown isn't content in his world of Zen Buddhism and E.F. ("Small is Beautiful") Schumacher quotations, but it may well be true that Gary Hart is the only one among the prospective 1980 Democratic hopefuls who is discontented...
...Joni of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, however, rarely steps outside herself. When she writes about her emotions, she fails to place them in any sort of perspective, or to fill in a persona around them. Thus, many of the new songs are portraits--not of a neurotic person--but of a neurosis. And Joni Mitchell's neuroses are not zany-funny, common, or even unique. In fact, they are not even all that interesting. Her songs are like a certain kind of friend--a friend of whom you are genuinely fond--but a friend who is forever wrapped...
Herbert said programs for the fund drive "are just beginning to surface. The Radcliffe College Office of Development and Alumnae Affairs had been keeping all new ideas on the back burner. Nothing could really move until they had their development person...
...going to win on either DISC or deferral." The President's proposal to limit deductions for business lunches to 50% of cost stirs little enthusiasm among Congressmen. One counterproposal being discussed by members of the Ways and Means Committee is to put a ceiling -say $25 per person-on the amount that businessmen can deduct for meals. Committee members agree that some tightening up is necessary, and they are likely to put an end to deductions for country club dues, yachts, theater tickets and the like, as Carter urges...
...tenth anniversary of what Commander Lloyd Bucher calls his "footnote in history," but the former skipper of the U.S.S. Pueblo doesn't believe in brooding. "I'm not a morose type of person. The sharp edges of Korea have eroded," says Bucher, 50, who spent eleven months in a North Korean prison after the capture of his ship. Since his retirement from the Navy in 1973, Bucher has done a bit of writing and lecturing. His topic on the lecture circuit: "What's Right with America." He has also taken up an old hobby, painting with watercolors...