Word: sampler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...needlepoint sampler with the phrase THE BASIS OF POLITICS IS COMPROmise used to decorate House Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill's office. Now it sits in Energy Secretary James Schlesinger's office, a trophy of a limited but significant victory last week in the bitter war over energy policy...
...page anthology of college reading lists, offers a second chance to set out on all those roads not taken, in or out of college. Compiled by Gail Thain Parker, former president of Bennington College, and veteran Guidebook Author Gene R. Hawes, the book is an intellectual Whitman's Sampler. The reading lists have been approved by some 20 professors at leading colleges. Their fields range from such traditional disciplines as art history, English literature and mathematics to such newer areas as film, black American history and women's studies. Sample topics: Oceanic art, the Gilded Age, psychosis...
...very profusion and complexity of the bargain fares have bothered and confused even the most seasoned traveler. A sampler...
Though one of the most talkative politicians of modern times, Humphrey will be remembered for his deeds, not his words. They were rarely memorable, but they were invariably heartfelt. They expressed rather than camouflaged the real man. A Humphrey sampler...
...Rizzo to maneuver around the Philadelphia mayoralty's two-term restriction, A.D.A. is trying yet another weapon: The Sayings of Chairman Frank, a 100-page compendium of Rizzoisms published last week that is intended to make municipal voters laugh and the city's mayor weep. A sampler...