Word: todays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Duffy, who was a TIME book reviewer for five years before taking on the cultural portfolio, grew up with a smattering of dance and piano lessons and a passion for the opera. "The Saturday-afternoon broadcast of the Met was the most important event of the week," she recalls. Today Duffy keeps a stereo and stack of classical records in her office. "I also listen to country-and-western," she says, "since editing a Merle Haggard cover five years...
...father "removed from the clergy part of the privileges they had previously enjoyed. Consequently, one section of the Shi'ite clergy responded by branding all temporal power as necessarily a form of usurpation." But the Shah insists that he dealt relatively mildly with his opponents: "I am told today that I should have applied martial law more forcefully. This would have cost my country less dear than the bloody anarchy now established there. But a sovereign cannot save his throne by spilling the blood of his fellow countrymen...
...Pentagon they call it the "Bay of Rugs." The humor is a little weak, but the point is valid. Just as the Bay of Pigs in 1961 sobered John Kennedy's Government, so has the Iranian crisis shocked today's Washington into a new sense of reality...
...walked into a bar in Manhattan's Grand Central Station, and the bartender, spotting his uniform, announced: "The first drink is on me." Brill was flabbergasted. That had not happened to him for years. "I'd like to see Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden take their tour today," he mused. Many more television programs and movies are being submitted to the armed services for consultation and technical advice. Marines are going to be good guys again on film. Says one officer: "We have learned there are some things in this world you cannot solve with a bumper sticker...
...students spend their time today engrossed in downing beers...