Word: smiled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the study finally suggests about how Congress can become more responsive and efficient, it is the particularized looks at their own performances that give most members the jitters. The project's director, Robert Fellmeth, 27, a graduate of Harvard Law School, observes without a smile...
Like many former patients, when he met old friends Crane would feel self-conscious about having been hospitalized for mental illness. According to Low's specific instructions, Crane "practiced 'averageness' by commanding my muscles to make me walk up to my friend, then shake hands, smile, and chat for a while. I proved to myself that I could look at my past mental illness in the same way I would look at pneumonia or any other physical illness...
Asking her reasons for stopping short at the twentieth century in her study, produced a more amusing insight on the rules of Hardwick's game. "I think that everything has changed in contemporars fiction," she smiles. "It's no longer a question of seduction and betrayal--there's just activity." Much of her talk was filled with a light-hearted rapport with her listeners. Gracious, delicate, charming, her Southern accent murdering a figure like Lovelace with a characteristic drawl of "ba-a-ad news," Hardwick was able to communicate much of her own personality to her audience. Always sympathetic...
...Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)" follows the tradition started by "Domino" and continued by "Wild Night." Van Morrison, no matter what'll happen the rest of the way through, opens with a rocker. This is the sureshot; if I don't hear this on WRKO's top ten instantly, I'm going to want to know way. It has everything, scat sung opening, with handclapping, a gorgeous eight bar progression, mostly nonsense lyrics, two horns overdubbed to make four, more energy than 2:56 deserves, and the musical resurrection of the words...
...sizes, ages and accents. They ranged from Katherine Harjo, 17, a Seminole Indian from Oklahoma to Jessie Sanders, 79, a political pro from South Dakota. The convention's cochairman, Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a black running for Congress from California, wielded the gavel with muscle, tact and a winning smile. Delegates were careful to address her as "Madam Chairwoman," or, at least once, as "Madam Chairperson." Representative Shirley Chisholm of New York won a small but loyal following for her presidential candidacy. Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, a Vassar-educated Texan who ran well for Governor earlier this year, was nominated...