Word: sweeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Playwright Harold Pinter-says she loves nothing more than to give and receive billets-doux. To kindle ardor in the souls of her readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings: "You are a wretch, truly perverse, truly stupid, a real Cinderella. You never write to me at all," a peevish Napoleon scrawled to Josephine from Verona. "Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry," wrote Oscar Wilde to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. Complained Benjamin Franklin...
Safire less frequently bashes Republicans, but he has publicly disowned Spiro Agnew for his anti-Semitism and criticized Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for encouraging rebellion among Iraq's Kurds and then refusing to aid them. A slick stylist with a sweet tooth for bon mots, Safire resisted obvious puns on the Kurds but drops groaners like "Zbig Government," and "Yamani or ya life...
...Sweet Revenge...
...victory, ending a string of frustrations dating back to October 4, 1976, was sweet for the booters. On that day 51 weeks ago the Crimson won its last varsity soccer game, downing UMass...
...tough upcoming schedule is distant from the Crimson booters' thoughts. At least until Tuesday, when Harvard takes on UMass at Amherst, the soccer team will be savoring a win over Wesleyan that was so-o-o-o sweet...