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...wonder everybody wants to go down to Florida. Life is easy down there. And so is baseball, or maybe it just appears that way, when you look at the Harvard baseball team's successful sojourn in Sunshine Land...
Broader Audience. In a sense, the Clinton sojourn was more important to Carter's aims than the U.N. appearance. It is in down-home Middle America that he hopes to build the constituency that will support him when he has to make the tough decisions on foreign and domestic problems. It is partly to open the foreign affairs dialogue to a broader audience that Carter has been tossing about such code phrases as "defensible borders" for Israel and "a Palestinian homeland," with little apparent regard for the experts' delicate definitions...
...seven by singing and dancing in vaudeville theaters; by age 17, she was a junior writer at MGM, and she has been writing ever since. She has plunged into her formidable assignment with a single-mindedness worthy of Scarlett. Just returned from a seven-week sojourn in the South, Edwards works in her Manhattan apartment bedroom, which she has converted into a cluttered archive of Reconstruction exotica. Beginning every morning at 8:30, propped up in bed by five pillows, she sifts through the five cartons of photocopied newspaper clippings that she collected in Dixie...
Though Zevon very much reflects the tone of youthful alienation heard in Los Angeles country rock, he protests at being labeled simply a Los Angeles songwriter. His next album, he says, will include songs about a sojourn in Europe last year. Then too there is his classical composition. "I'm not about to make a concept album of Hamlet playing the guitar," he says. "I just want to work on my symphony in the early mornings." He has been experimenting with atonality and describes his symphony as being in the tradition of Berg and Bartok. Perhaps, when...
...third of the pie-even if it's the fattest, richest third." Jerry Bender, 38, was making $50,000 a year in Los Angeles as the chairman of two small film corporations when he began to feel unhappy about his high-pressure existence. "Now," he says of his sojourn at the ashram, "I'm in love for the first time in my life. I'm in love with life. Before this I was in business. Today I am more creative. When I go back to my business, I'll probably earn $200,000 a year...