Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know whom to marry," confesses Linda Buonaiuto, 32. "I asked my girlfriends to make the decision for me. I ended up with Walter," she adds with a tentative glance at her new husband, "and it's just great." Another member philosophizes: "Wife swapping used to be thought of as a vice. But we take a vice and turn it into a virtue. It's been an exhilarating experience...
...concessions that may be necessary for peace. According to TIME'S survey, 39% felt that the Israelis were doing everything possible to bring about a peace settlement, but 33% regarded Israel's demands and attitudes as unreasonable; 28% were not sure. On a related question, 42% thought Israeli fears about a Palestinian state on the West Bank were reasonable, 31% unreasonable, and 27% were unsure. A minority (29%) believed that the Carter Administration had unfairly pushed the Israelis to make concessions; 50% disagreed, and the rest were not sure...
Seventy years ago, in The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad described an act of anarchist terrorism as "a blood-stained inanity of so fatuous a kind that it was impossible to fathom its origin by any reasonable or even unreasonable process of thought." Today West Germans, in ordeals of introspection and defensive truculence, are trying to understand the almost autistic fury of their own terrorists. Why should their country-its political system stable and democratic, its wealth distributed reasonably well, its society open and obsessively moderate -have produced the murderous young of the Baader-Meinhof gang and the Red Army Faction...
...bank. He was Henry Muller, vice president in charge of real estate, who was keenly aware that the rapidly expanding bank had to rent office space all over town. Even so, when Schnabel and McArthur got to see him, Muller threw them out. Said he: "I thought these two bandits were out to screw...
...Neil Simon has to be decidedly schizophrenic -something that is highly improbable. Act I of Chapter Two contains the sunniest romantic sequences of the wooing of a woman by a man that Simon has ever written. Act II contains some husband-and-wife bloodletting that Edward Albee might have thought of when he was writing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...