Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...microwave smile that warms another person without heat. His feeling for America is long and loving. Milton Eisenhower, the last of that remarkable cluster of Kansas boys, turned 80 the other day and wished he could sculpt a U.S. President out of proven parts. He would weld his brother Dwight's heart bone to Franklin Roosevelt's head bone. What a work of political art that might be, he chuckles...
...guaranteed that we are not going to get the kind of person we need." he declared...
...friends. Eventually the order built leprosariums, children's homes, havens for women, the handicapped and the old. The deepest consolation offered, though, was something that went beyond physical care. "For me each one is an individual," Mother Teresa once explained. "I can give my whole heart to that person for that moment in an exchange of love. It is not social work. We must love each other. It involves emotional involvement, making people feel they are wanted...
...each magazine handled the story was left to individual editors. Predictably enough, no one comes out against the ERA. Presentations range from perfunctory (Playgirl devotes a mere 300 words in its editor's column) to intensely personal (writes Essence's editor in chief Marcia Ann Gillespie: "I did not stand up for my rights as a black person in America to be told that I have to sit down because I'm a woman"). Ladies' Home Journal has the most glamorous contributor in Senator Edward Kennedy. Also the most platitudinous: "[The ERA] will give meaning...
...Reed had posted a high school two mile time of about 9:01 and even with his strong showings this season, has yet to reach his full potential," McCurdy said recently. "He is an unusually talented person physically...