Word: standings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's disturbing is not that people like to dress fancy and have a good time--even children enjoy playing house and wearing crowns. It is that the ideologies of these liberal Kennedys, Galbraiths, student politicos and journalists stand in bleak contrast to their elitist lifestyles and pretensions. How will Americans view a lavish black-tie affair to open a school of public service...
Those with genuine talents stand out by maintaining unique musical personalities. They don't have much in common with the true three-riff, blast-their-ears-off punks except that they came along at about the same time. But the middle-aged record company executives, deafened by all the high-volume distortion, just signed them all on together--the execs think it's all the same to the kids, anyway...
Rosen, an active member of the Constitutional Convention last year and of the Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC), said yesterday the assembly should probably hold a referendum or hold "town meetings" in the Houses before taking a stand on South African issues...
While nearly everyone agrees that Milligan is seriously ill, there is some doubt about whether to bring him to trial. Earlier this month, Harding reported to the court that Milligan's personalities had fused to the point where he was competent to stand trial, and Judge Jay C. Flowers set a December trial date. Last week, however, Milligan came apart again. His Ragen personality emerged and handed Public Defender Gary Schweickart a picture of a rag doll with a noose around its neck, hanging in front of a cracked mirror. Three days later, Arthur was in control, questioning...
...Third Reich. In other novels, plays and poems, he dealt with the Hitler aftermath of political divisions and haunted affluence. One mark of Grass's success is the uneasiness he caused the average German of his own World War II generation. In a tradition where philosophy and history stand on pedestals of grand abstractions, Grass's earthiness and ribald ironies came as a peasant's rude truths...