Word: truman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known for a mean left and the other for a mean write, but last week Norman Mailer and Truman Capote were on their best behavior. Only bons mots and canapés were passed around at a Manhattan discothèque party celebrating the publication of Southern Baptist Dotson Rader's new book Miracle. To get in the spirit of things, Dotson and a friend sang hymns between disco numbers. "Why not? After all, television mixes apples with astronauts," opined Mailer, 55, who is writing a book about Gary Gilmore, the executed murderer. "It's a new angle...
...years coal miners never had to ask that question. With the autocratic John L. Lewis in command, the United Mine Workers of America stood in the vanguard of American labor. Lewis staged epic brawls with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, and the strikes he called paralyzed the economy, but his union grew strong. The greatest Lewis victory occurred in 1947 when he got the operators to pay 100 on every ton of coal mined to miners' retirement funds and lifelong free medical benefits...
...artist, said, 'Just your name, Mr. Proust. No thoughts.' ") The U.S. he sees as still an open society, free and easy, rambunctious, optimistic, cheerfully ready to build on both its successes and its mistakes. He likes American lingo and quotes a lot of it (Harry Truman on Jack Kennedy: "He had his ear so close to the ground it was full of grasshoppers"). He likes interstate highways, supermarkets, fast-food shops, fast talkers, the entire "discardo" culture. He likes the chanciness of the San Andreas fault, on which he now lives in California...
...Harvard, not Radcliffe. However, the name Radcliffe must be retained, Reagor adds, for legal and financial purposes. Some foundations will not give Harvard money but will grant money to Radcliffe, which they picture as a small women's college struggling with a large university, Reagor says. For example, two Truman scholarships, instead of one, are granted to Harvard-Radcliffe students because Radcliffe maintains its unique autonomy...
...said there is a need for specialists in that area because Truman F. Bewley, associate professor of Economics and an econometrics specialist, is leaving at the end of the year. He added, however, the department did not hire Erickson specifically as a replacement...