Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter, Southerner, President, last week stalked the ridges and swells of Civil War tragedy, fascinated, brooding. And in his mind, he retreated with the flower of Southern manhood across that wide field of death, back to the South, defeat and a century of humiliation that he feels he was somehow sent to right...
...gaudy furnishings. "It's part of Texas history," exulted Dallas Housewife Rena Winfield, who came away with two bar stools supported by pairs of shapely legs. A bag of brass tokens, embossed with the motto "Good for all night," went for $30. David Grayson, a rancher from southern Texas, paid $65 for the outhouse, which he planned to re-establish back home "just for nostalgia." One of the most curious objects of all was a chest of drawers with money slots labeled Thelma, Velma, Miss Lilli, etc. The triumphant new owner, who paid $30 for it, identified herself...
What causes masochistic behavior? University of Southern California Psychologist Gary Frieden, 25, thinks he knows the answer: low selfesteem. In a series of tests on college students, he found that lowering self-esteem leads normal people to choose suffering and painful tasks...
...this year figured they would lose three evening-news ratings points if Anchor Bill Kurtis jumped to NBC-owned WMAQ, they won him back by counteroffering $250,000 a year. They considered it a bargain. Says Joe Saltzman, a veteran TV newsman who teaches broadcasting at the University of Southern California: "The anchor person presents the news the way people like to hear it. He's worth every penny he gets for that...
Alan I. Frolich '78, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) and an organizer of the boycott, said yesterday the decline in pledges "indicates that students are committed enough to withhold what the University needs--which is money...