Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...covered six presidential elections and fashioned his impressions into the extraordinary The Making of the President series. But two years ago, at 61, Theodore H. White had nagging doubts about his work. He felt he should have grappled with the deeper meanings of all he had seen and reported, the groundswells of history that changed the world during his lifetime. The result is a radical departure from his previous efforts. This week we take special pleasure in presenting excerpts from Teddy White's new book, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure. In it, the furious energy and unquenchable...
...Hirsch collecting was a magnificent obsession. Thus before he died last November at the age of 94, he set aside a few personal bequests and then decreed that the rest be sold in order to give others a chance to vie for the treasures that nowadays are rarely seen outside museums...
...game, and not simply as the termination of a huge fiesta. Tickets had been sold out for weeks, naturally, and scalpers were selling seats for $300 or more. Movie theaters where closed-circuit color broadcasts would be offered were mobbed. What the world could expect to see-and had seen far too little of in this World Cup-was the collision of two rough, occasionally brilliant young teams that had played hesitant soccer in the early rounds but at the end had committed themselves to attack...
...series did not mean, however, that the heavens FIFA commands were without clouds. Much of the time the soccer was crabbed, cautious and defensive until Erny Brandts did his walkabout and the Argentines went wild. A meeting of the College of Cardinals produces far more pugnacity than was seen in the early-round matches...
...overshadow what is basically a mediocre play. Gilroy's work perhaps evokes some of the feeling of the times--the generation gap existed then, too, and the resentment and alienation of a failed marriage certainly didn't spring up in the last decade. This basic theme has been seen so many times before...a male child goes off to war, or what have you, and comes back as a man to his family abode. He soon realizes that he must move out on his own, that he has his own life to live. Nothing new there. And while The Subject...