Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, rapid change now often turns it into conventional behavior. Only a few years ago, Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer seemed eccentric indeed; now the young scorn him as an Establishmentarian. Conceivably, some current student radicals may go the same way-as some black leaders already have. In short, real eccentricity is probably harder to achieve than ever...
...also defended student dissenters during last spring's riots, underscoring the fact that, in a land where individual rights have all too often been abused, he puts unusual stress on human liberty. As German President, he will have little real power. Nonetheless, he can exert a substantial influence on the tone of West German life. That influence is likely to be unorthodox and refreshing. Though most West Germans worship the auto as a status symbol, Heinemann neither drives nor owns a car. Nor does he have the customary built-in German reflex about respect for authority. When a reporter...
...country-editors, still has a clear eye for whimsy and a delicate needle for his brethren in the publishing world. Witness the letter-to-the-editor that Hough recently offered readers of his Vineyard Gazette on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.: "Now I have a real problem. McCall's Magazine advised my wife that 1,992 'lively' women in the Chilmark area are receiving a copy of McCall's every month and would she become number 1,993? The latest census of Chilmark shows a total of 300 souls, of which...
...year-old graduate anthropology student at Harvard, was murdered in January. The embarrassed slum landlord turned out to be none other than Harvard itself, and the episode only further embittered some citizens of Cambridge who were already resentful of the university's increasingly inflationary impact on real estate values...
Since then, Benelli has set about forming what Vatican observers are calling the "first real Montini government." Brisk and forceful, he has streamlined Curia procedures and organized his own corps of energetic subordinates. He works unusually long hours for Rome, and even lives next door to his office. He has, says one Vatican official, "acquired or deliberately taken into his own hands almost every decision made by the Secretariate these days." Understandably, Benelli is careful to couch many decisions in the voice of his boss. His suave letters will often read "The Holy Father thinks," or "According to the Pope...