Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel quite at ease with pot, rock and permissive sex; many of us reject the youih culture categorically. Most of us, however, occupy the unhappy position of being undecided: we want to enjoy, but deep down in our pre-Spock psyches, we feel we shouldn't. We puff marijuana at parties when we would be happier with Scotch or gin; we don bell-bottoms when we would rather be in tweeds; we jump into affairs when we would rather be at home in bed-asleep. The visible result often is a compromise: the staid Wall Street lawyer, in vest...
...humor or into yuks too obviously derived from the new school of American-Jewish humor. His story line suffers the common affliction of the picaresque novel, midsection-al sag. But Perera always shows a lively talent and, if not yet a full-blown Bellow, his is a most promising puff...
...nightclub chanteuse at least is trying to clear the air. Felicia Sanders, sometimes known as "the American Edith Piaf," recently introduced It's a Drag to patrons of Manhattan's Rainbow Grill, an elegant gin-mill-in-the-sky atop the RCA Building. Though the customers habitually puff away until the air turns blue, Sanders' smoky boogie had them snuffing out their cigarettes in alarm...
Trigger Fingers. It is no easy undertaking, given the mood of the nation. Moderate dissenters must be made to see at least a puff of peace-pipe smoke, while the crazies and burners and the would-be revolutionaries must not get even a burnt match. The solid core of loyalists, still the majority, still Nixon's mainstay of the moment and hope for the future, must not be offended in the process. Finally, Hanoi must not get the impression that Nixon is politically crippled like Lyndon Johnson...
...Under a new Newspaper Guild contract at the Denver Post, three reporters will meet monthly in committee with three members of management to discuss questions of publishing ethics. (One grievance the reporters plan to raise is the assignment of so-called puff pieces to support ads in special sections.) Some young reporters are skeptical of the committee's effectiveness. With staffers from the Rocky Mountain News, they are trying to start their own watchdog journal, along the lines of the Chicago Journalism Review...