Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last winter at a Swiss chalet. She, however, insists they are only chums. In an interview with Woman's Own magazine she gave a rare close-up view of the bachelor Prince. Charles, she disclosed, makes his own dates (not, as some have said, through third parties). He may pick up the woman in his Aston Martin or invite her to meet him at one of the royal residences...
...have to force yourself to consider some minority and women candidates for every promotion that's coming up," says Eklund. "Then pick only people who are qualified, but don't make a major issue of who is best qualified. There has never been a promotion program in any company where the best qualified person got the job in every instance." The same is true, he adds, of hiring. Of the agents to be hired by the Equitable this year, 18% will be women, 12% blacks, 6% Hispanics. People down the line attest that this system is drawing...
Kazin's style is regularly tutorial rather than autobiographical; a succession of wives and mistresses make brief entrances and exits between mini-essays. Those essays, though, pick up nearly all of the slack of the personal narrative. They recreate some of the events that agitated his circle during the past three decades-the post-Holocaust trauma. Red baiting in the '50s. radicalism in the '60s-and show who lined up where and for what reasons. Kazin himself often wound up in the middle and caught grief from both sides. His scrupulous, sometimes pained explanations make his history...
...less than three weeks Michael K. Savit will have penned his last piece as an undergraduate sportswriter for The Crimson. This may seem trite amidst review sections and all-nighters in the dining hall, and probably will continue to seem so until you pick up The Crimson at breakfast next September and find little to refresh...
...shelter I slept in last night is the oldest on the kibbutz. It was first used during Israel's war for statehood in 1948. This shelter was better prepared. It came equipped with a pick-axe, so the survivors could later dig themselves out of the rubble...