Word: rightnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American context, the fierce dispute over abortion now concerns whether traditional Jewish and Christian teaching should be incorporated into secular law. Catholics themselves are divided. Many Catholic Congressmen oppose abortion personally but want no constitutional amendment to control it. But for John Paul, activism is essential on human rights. "If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb," he has said, "an indirect blow is struck also at the whole of the moral order." He urged the cheering crowd in Washington to "demand that...
...good journalist approaches an interview subject as he would a safe, spinning from cajolery to intimidation to sympathy, hoping to hit upon the right combination. In May 1977, David Frost unlocked Richard Nixon as no inquisitor ever had, eliciting candid admissions, remorse, even a glint of tears. Dismissed beforehand as a frothy talk-show host, Frost won journalistic plaudits for his painstaking preparation and expert technique. In short, he was an obvious network choice to interview Henry Kissinger on the occasion of the publication of the first volume of his memoirs...
...classic clown tradition, Brooks claims that none of this has brought happiness-and he may very well be right. "Jim is a roller coaster," says Daniels. "He's up. He's down. You try to hang on and you see he's going in another direction." Like the Burt Reynolds character in Starting Over, the bearded Brooks, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Lytton Strachey, apparently had a slow recovery from divorce. "I would go out on a date," he says, "and have difficulty breathing." But he finally had a soft landing into a second marriage, with...
NONFICTION: African Calliope, Edward Hoagland ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff∙ The Intricate Music, Thomas Kiernan∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The White Album, Joan Didion ∙Zebra, Clark Howard
...Right Stuff, Wolfe