Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should be recorded-not in the spirit of sneering at misfortune-that books about slow expiration from leukemia have become something of a literary genre. In his best novel, Blood of the Lamb, Peter DeVries wrote obliquely about his daughter's leukemia. Stewart Alsop collected nerve and wits long enough during a remission to write Stay of Execution about his own plight before he died. Football Player Brian Piccolo's death became first a fond memoir by his friend Gale Sayers, then a TV film called Brian's Song. Now Freelance Writer Doris Lund offers Eric...
Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence [1962], with John Wayne and James Stewart, with a D.W. Griffith short, Thursday...
...Last Whole Earth Catalog, published in 1971, which told the dropout generation where to get the information to do its own thing-cultivate organic food, build geodesic domiciles, grow pot. The volume went through 14 printings, sold 1.2 million copies, won a prestigious National Book Award and turned Publisher Stewart Brand, 35, into an old-fashioned capitalist...
...quite funny; some of it is extremely sad. It possesses a barbed honesty that obviously unsettled some of the playgoers who hissed and booed it on opening night, as well as several of the critics. Declaring a personal auto-da-fe WNEW-TV's usually commonsensical critic Stewart Klein declared that he wished to burn Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater and Director-Producer Joseph Papp...
Clockwork Orangers. Younger Iranians chafe at such restrictions, but the government is in no hurry to change the situation. Premier Hoveida, in an interview with TIME Correspondent William Stewart, dismissed protesters as "a bunch of Clockwork Grangers." Said he: "The survival of the state cannot come about with a permissive society." The Shah himself is even blunter: "We want to catch up and do it quickly. In these very specific conditions, the blah-blahs of armchair critics are obviously ignored. If this is intolerance, I accept...