Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stranger...
...gullible deserve to be gulled. "The name of the game" is a phrase that keeps coming from Suskind, who also likes to quote W.C. Fields' untrue statement that "you can't cheat an honest man." It is one thing to offer a gold brick to a stranger, but it is quite another to sell watered stock to your neighbors. Irving based his swindle on the fact that his own publishers knew him and assumed that he was honest. From that misguided trust, as much as from Irving's talents as a fabricator, all else followed. Long before...
Near midnight, after the deed had been done and Richard Nixon was the nominee and the programmed frenzy had died, a warm-faced woman in her 50s shuffled through the debris, turned to a stranger, and in a voice of housewifely distress, said, "My heavens, did you ever see such a mess in your life?" It was down home in Miami Beach with the folks who, it may be, really run America...
...president, Arthur I. Segel '73, said he is going to spend a lot of time this year improving HSA's image. Segel is no stranger to the office of president, which he held in his senior year of high school and in his elementary school. Whether Segel spends his year making real changes or devotes his time merely to cosmetic image building will depend in part on a vigilant community that insists on reform...
...target. Of all playwrights, it is Shakespeare who healingly knits man and woman, Jew and Gentile, white and black, together in a bright, profound and moving vision of our common humanity. His spirit is as generous as the sea. Perhaps it is this spirit that is Fiedler's "stranger...