Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ENEMY. Never mind all those smooth-talking partisans of "men's liberation" joyously chanting "Oppressors, arise and recognize your own oppression!," fresh from their discovery that men as well as women suffer from rigid sexual stereotyping. No use trying to pin the blame on some anonymous entity called "the system" which makes both sexes squirm unhappily--not even if the system turns to be none other than that ogre capitalism. After all, Marxist theory may say one thing, but in practice socialist countries still uphold the nuclear family and discriminate against women. Every man--socialist or capitalist--is a sexist...
...Karl has shaken off his huffiness and is his old smooth self again. "Tell you the truth, I don't know how much we're affected by what critics say. We know who we are, and in the end that's really all that matters. I'm very proud of this book. I'm very proud, you know, to have done...
...lost his virginity? Apparently, that was not exactly what he had in mind when he left Newsweek to found his own weekly paper in Los Angeles--a paper that folded after only five months. "The paper was the first thing I'd failed at," Fleming says, his smooth, self-confident manners breaking momentarily. "Knocked me right on my ass--this being a society which doesn't look too kindly on failure...
...Emperor and Empress Nagako were driven to the re-created colonial village of Williamsburg, Va. There Hirohito rode in an open carriage to the House of Burgesses, and like thousands of tourists before him, fed the ducks on the grounds of the Williamsburg Inn. He also found time to smooth over a troublesome incident. He dispatched a Japanese official to nearby Norfolk to lay a wreath on the grave of General Douglas MacArthur, the commander whose forces had defeated Japan but who had allowed Hirohito to keep his title. The gesture was made to appease MacArthur's widow...
...frailty of el Caudillo, who has looked all of his 82 years since he suffered a near-fatal illness in mid-1974, was a dramatic reminder of how much more the regime needs to do to relax its often harsh rule and prepare Spain for a smooth transition into a post-Franco era once the Generalissimo dies or, less likely, steps down. At a time when Spain badly needs closer ties with Western Europe to help sustain its rise to prosperity and ease the coming transition, an all but irrational outburst of anti-Spanish emotions in European capitals has left...