Word: regards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mobilizing support for a compromise had been the main goal of Strauss's Middle East trip, Aug. 16 to Aug. 20, but he had found none. The Israelis now regard 242 as sacrosanct, and they rejected any plan to tamper with or modify...
...average. Yet there is an almost unconscious refusal to accept them. In the last major poll on racial issues, taken by Gallup in February 1978, 49% thought that nonwhites should be offered financial help to return "home," as if they were not already there. Indeed, the British seem to regard the race problem as an unfortunate accident from which they still hope to recover...
That question is being asked most insistently by the nearly 1 million British-born children of immigrants. Unlike their parents, they regard themselves as Britons first, with a birthright of equality. They may not wait long to press their demands. In an eloquent TV documentary aired last month, a young Birmingham Asian, Tony Huq, expressed his generation's mood of defiance: "Gone are the days when we didn't even make a whimper. Gone are the days when we kept quiet about discrimination. Gone are the days when we accepted second-class citizenship...
...Shanti Spaeth and her husband Karl regard street music as theater. They unashamedly cater to the tourists around Jackson Square, in New Orleans' French Quarter, by wearing ragtag getups and going barefoot. Karl, besides playing guitar, mandolin and trombone, laces their performances with his own political jokes and humorous songs (Ain 't No Sin to Take off Your Skin and Dance Around in Your Bones). But all is seriousness when Shanti belts out blues or scats like Ella Fitzgerald on Satin Doll. The couple were married nine days after meeting at a crafts fair in Oregon a year...
Johansen's credentials for such a calling include some years in parochial school dodging the discipline of the nuns and four years of public high school in Staten Island, a blue-collar enclave that most New Yorkers regard as little more than the place the ferry stops before it turns back toward Manhattan. Johansen made that ferry trip a lot, voyaging into Greenwich Village at an age when most kids are sweating out the junior varsity cuts...