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...spring of 1972, Joyce Maynard, then 18 and a Yale freshman, sprang full-blown upon the pages of the New York Times Magazine with a treatise on growing "old" in the 1960s. Since then, she has become the enfant visible of the magazine world, writing features about everything from proms to prodigies and becoming a gossip-column celebrity in her own right by tying up with the hero of another generation, J.D. Salinger (TIME...
...spying apparatus sprang readily into action in September 1971 when Nixon ordered his own White House investigation into Ellsberg's entire background. Ehrlichman admits that he assigned the Hunt-Liddy team to the task. In testimony before the Washington grand jury, released last week by U.S. District Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. at the Ellsberg trial, Hunt told an intriguing story of being aided by the CIA in the burglarizing of the Beverly Hills office of Psychiatrist Lewis Fielding...
...proposition on the ballot. To make the plan more palatable, he combined it with a 20% income tax credit designed to refund to the taxpayers $415 million of this fiscal year's $850 million budget surplus. A citizens' group called Californians for Lower Taxes sprang up on command. On its first mailing of 120,000 letters, the group received 11,130 contributions, amounting to $140,000. So popular is the scheme that liberal Democrats are reluctant to attack it. As Reagan says with a smile: "If you're for it, you've got a lot going...
...down, some members of the cast brought me forward from the wings. I took a frightened little bow. After a terrible roasting the next morning, one of the critics ended with a line that is graven on my mind: 'The end of it all was that Miss Boothe sprang out like a gazelle to cries of "Author! Author!"-which were audible to no ears but her own.' I have never been to the opening of a play of mine since...
...last great exponent. It has to do with a passionate omnivorousness, a scale of experience not limited by a priori definitions of what painting or sculpture can carry; with an energetic and Mediterranean humanism. The life springs from the appetites, and the art from both. Or now, "sprang"; for no artist left alive has been able to rival Picasso's cultural embodiment of the self. The confidence in which Picasso lived -that everything really pleasurable or painful to the senses or central to one's social experience could be rendered in painting and sculpture-has disappeared. That certainty...