Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thank God for a writer like Paddy Chayefsky, who wrote the script for Network...
...since he became Secretary of State in September 1973. Aboard his blue-and-white Boeing 707, Kissinger and his wife Nancy chatted with correspondents about events of great and not-so-great moment. Nancy's yellow Labrador, Tyler, had been in his first dogfight but was recovering nicely, thank you. After Jan. 20, Henry Kissinger would spend a restful month at Banker David Rockefeller's home on St. Barthélemy Island in the Caribbean. There would be a fitting punishment for the diplomatic press once Cyrus Vance took office: "The only shuttle you guys will take from...
...Oxford-educated Briton sat beneath a coconut tree on a tropical beach philosophizing. The strongman, Panamanian Dictator Omar Torrijos, noted that both their fathers had been teachers, and that he had left his family at 17. The Briton, Author Greene himself, mused between sips of rum punch: "You should thank God you did escape from home, because if you hadn't you might be an intellectual today." Greene quickly added: "I am not, because to be an intellectual is rather academic. A creative writer seems to me to be emotionally involved, and that is not being an intellectual. They...
...time." The deans and CHUL should realize that, whether or not the new system is better in their eyes, it is not in those of the freshmen, and it should be changed. Perhaps if this issue was given more attention CHUL would reconsider and revert to the old policy. Thank you, Marc Sobil...
ALLIGATORS AND MUSIC by Donald Elliott. Illustrated by Clinton Arrowood. 67 pages. Gambit. $8.95. Anyone who thinks of alligators as truculent beasts can thank Clinton Arrowood for revealing their spiritual side: they are dedicated musicians. There is no indication of this in Donald Elliott's didactic text, a series of short essays in which the instruments of the orchestra archly explain their characteristics. Thus the bassoon: "I am something of a deep thinker." Somehow, this unpromising libretto inspired Arrowood to portray each instrument being performed by one of his bewigged and frock-coated reptiles. The results are as absurd...