Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clinton, Mass., a faded, heavily Democratic mill town (pop. 13,300) west of Boston, friendly citizens applauded the President's every remark at a folksy town assembly. Two sons of Edward and Katherine Thompson, a merry middle-class Irish couple with whom Carter spent the night, even joked about having a Chief Executive in their home. "Should we stand when he comes in?" asked Edward Thompson, 27. "No," quipped his brother Richard, 16, "we're going to kneel...
...there is a nourishing mail-order trade in expensive coats of arms (TIME, Jan. 27, 1975), but these are almost all bogus. Regardless of his surname, only the eldest son of the eldest son of families who actually bore arms is entitled to a shield. In Genealogist J. Charles Thompson's words: "You have no more business using another man's arms than you would have using his toothbrush...
...Blood and Money, Thompson...
...mixture of primitivism and sophistication. These sculptures have all the energy of children's art, excited without a trace of self-doubt or self-consciousness. And they have also that elegance and grace that is supposed to compensate an adult for losing that initial confidence. Where Mildred Thompson shows her art is chiefly in this combination of what others would call opposites into a spare, yet memorable, artistic statement...
...appeal. Esoteric rock, with a "message" can become as boring as vitamin pills--this stuff, however, doesn't fall into that trap. Typically an ARS song begins with a minimum of frills, a few tight riffs and you're rocking down the highway with them, wishing like Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan attorney that your tin-pot radio could turn higher...