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Word: ruth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aide Hamilton Jordan's celebrated evening at Sarsfield's bar is only the latest episode in a continuing assault on traditional American sensitivities that probably began with Billy Carter. It has included such elements as Sister Ruth's evangelical mission to Porn King Larry Flynt, the Bert Lance affair, Jody Powell's intrigue against Senator Percy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Troublesome Question of Class | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...young hero of the tale, emerges as a Machiavellian schemer whose love of power makes him patient enough to wait for it. Samuel Steven Weinstein)--in the Bible a wise judge--becomes the string-pulling kingmaker, a self-styled and arrogant Rasputin figure. Lipsky adds the role of Ruth (Phoebe Barnes), a local witch who loves and is loved by Saul, but who loses out to Saul's political ambition and his sense of duty...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: The New Old Testament | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...scenes between Ruth and Saul are unquestionably the most realistic and the most engrossing in the play. Barnes's Ruth shines in both her dimensions--suitably mysterious in her witchcraft, wise and shrewishly loving in her human relations. Whenever he faces serious trouble, Saul seeks out his mistress Ruth, who tartly reprimands him for selfishly taking and not giving, but helps him nevertheless. Ruth is the only character in the play who really understands Saul's limitations, and how unsuited he is for his role of king...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: The New Old Testament | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...where," asked the 15th century French poet François Villon, "are the snows of yesteryear?" Ruth Kirk knows, and in her newly published Snow, she answers not only Villon's question but any others the reader-be he skier, scientist or snowbound suburbanite-may have about the stuff that delights children, often annoys and inconveniences adults, and, to a greater extent than most people are aware, has influenced the course of history and will continue to do so. As Kirk describes, the snows of yesteryear-and the years before that-have been compressed for thousands of years into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White on White | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...only thing snow may not be is in finitely variable. One would like to be lieve that no two snowflakes are identical. But, notes Ruth Kirk, there are no physical rules that should prevent nature from duplicating itself, and there are more than half a million snowflakes in each cubic foot of snow. Scientists may not have found two flakes that are exactly alike. But then, they really haven't looked at that many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White on White | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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