Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporting an unfavorable change said it was because of his remarks about the Shah. Twenty-five percent cited his stands on issues, and 13% said his attacks on Carter were the cause of their altered views of the Massachusetts Senator. Kennedy's image as a strong leader, although still the best among all presidential candidates, has also declined. In August 58% said he would be a "very strong" leader. Now 41% hold that view...
...Illinois, where Kennedy scored something of an early coup by winning Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne's endorsement, the campaign organization is still in a disorderly state. Even the mayor's aides have begun joking about the Kennedy effort. Sneered one: "It's the only campaign operation in town with an unlisted telephone number...
...even put on his clothes. But none of it did any good: Jamie remained the runt of the family, whereas the lost David, in his mother's eyes, would always be tall, handsome, ripe with promise. "When I became a man," Barrie noted sadly, "[Da-vid] was still...
...Birkin observes, when Barrie died in 1937 he was revered and renowned as a novelist and playwright. Yet it is doubt ful that he felt himself anything but a failure, still longing for that country of lost content, a landscape that existed only in his mother's mind when she dreamed of her dead David. What Barrie discovered in his single masterpiece is that almost everyone secretly yearns for vanished innocence. Most people put the search aside to answer the demands of here and now. Barrie's tragedy was that he was condemned to look for it every...
...January for an unprecedented meeting with the Pope aimed at bringing order out of the current doctrinal chaos in the Dutch church. A new poll in The Netherlands shows that only 47% of Catholics there think Christ is the Son of God, compared with 70% in 1966; fewer still be lieve in a personal God or life after death...