Word: short
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope John Paul I? Our smiling September Pope who captured the love and respect of the world in such a short time...
...treaty when the Camp David summit concluded, in a burst of exuberant optimism, exactly three months earlier. But at week's end, reluctantly acknowledging that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin were still far apart on the few unresolved issues, a disappointed Vance abruptly cut short his shuttle and returned to Washington. As Vance headed home, a weary Sadat met with his aides, and the Israeli Cabinet held a special five-hour session that resulted, to nobody's surprise, in a unanimous rejection of the latest Egyptian proposals...
...borrowing from one special fund to pay off the obligations of another, so no one was sure how large the debt really was. Kucinich compounded the problem with more book juggling. Whatever the amount, Kucinich's plan, explained in prime-time TV last week, would only have been a short-term delaying action. Yet he made it sound deceptively tempting, claiming that suburbanites would actually pay all but 17% of the $30 million tax increase...
Though he is short of a parliamentary majority by five votes, Britain's Prime Minister James Callaghan has kept his Labor government in power since August by combining the boldness of a crap shooter with the cunning of a political confidence man. Even so, Callaghan constantly teeters on the edge of defeat. Last week he almost fell, surviving an unexpected vote of confidence only through a jerry-built majority of the moment...
Like a hermit crab, John Updike inhabits old but serviceable forms: the novel, short story and light verse, the Christian church, a duly consecrated marriage (his second) and a 19th century Massachusetts farmhouse. Both the artist and the man have discovered the vital irritants and ironic satisfactions of the familiar and traditional. His body of work grows with impressive regularity. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a fixed star at The New Yorker. Yet many critics have called him irrelevant, accused him of having nothing to say and proffered the supreme lefthanded compliment...