Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this morning's F train to Brooklyn. Better if I talked to myself; I understand, but my head does not. (Who taught my mother to iron so well?) Whoever it was, they're more sophisticated now: my little sister isn't told don't be too smart, you'll scare the boys away, but go ahead, boys like girls who think. And a Harvard shrink told me last year: "Men are unhappy because there is nothing, women because there is no one." Harvard shrink is a man. What he says is effect, not cause; women learn that there is only...
...Chief of Staff Haim Bar-Lev, is known to be considering resigning if the talks continue under the present circumstances. "He is debating with himself," a friend said last week, "over whether to continue in the Cabinet." A recent meeting between Dayan and Opposition Leader Menahem Begin threw a scare into the ruling Labor Party leadership. Such a threat to her coalition has caused Mrs. Meir to adopt a stiffer line in the face of Washington's pressure. After a heated debate, her advisers decided last weekend to continue with the talks but to delay Ambassador Tekoah...
...Adenauer, who went to Moscow 15 years ago and agreed grudgingly to establish diplomatic relations in return for the freedom of nearly 10,000 German prisoners of war. Brandt's visit, by contrast, was friendly and informal, but like so many contemporary events, it began with a bomb scare...
...another misguided extra-literary self-estimate, Snow has encouraged comparisons with Proust. But interior drama is precisely Snow's weakness. Motives scare him. In The Light and the Dark (1947), the second volume in the series, Snow began to exhaust his taste for the tragic in facing up to the morbid life and violent death of Eliot's best friend. The next novel, rather significantly, was titled Time of Hope. Snow has tended to keep mad ness and despair at arm's length ever since...
...opposed the administration's plan to split his college into smaller schools. He was also a target because of his liberalism, aggressiveness and potential candidacy for the U.T. presidency. According to one professor, Erwin told Silber: "John, you are the most intelligent, articulate and persistent man around. You scare the hell out of the incompetents above...