Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't so long ago that conformity at Smith College meant lots of pearls, cashmere twin sets and an Ivory-soaped glow of health. According to Julie Nixon Eisenhower (Smith '70), all that has now been changed. She found her senior year "very oppressive . . . there was so much emphasis on conformity. You had to be involved in a strike, you had to be involved in a fast for peace. There really was belligerence against those who didn't want to be part of this." Julie also raised a few eyebrows when she said that it "was disappointing...
...Twin Specters. "When one sees the response the people have made," Indira said last week, "this increases our responsibility to do something quickly." One of her first acts when Parliament convenes this week will be to present a new budget. Beyond that, the pressure will be on her to produce some solutions to India's myriad problems-inflation, a sluggish economy, unemployment, poverty. Hovering over all of these are the twin specters that have haunted the nation from its birth in 1947. One is the spate of ethnic, religious and linguistic divisions that have always threatened to tear...
Denunciation of domestic fascism as a twin evil to international communism...
Buechner's characters do not easily lend themselves to humor. The narrator is a bachelor approaching middle age, who lives with his cat on the Upper East Side, and goes to the hospital every day, to visit his twin sister, who is dying of a bone disease, and has just been divorced by her husband. The narrator's subject is the middle-aged founder of a Southern fundamentalist religion, which ordains anybody to the ministry by request (and the payment of a love offering), a former Bible salesman who did five years in jail for exhibitionism. The other characters...
That ambition achieved, Ford could not bear to change his car because it represented more than a car. Yet, "it had not achieved the objective he had unconsciously set for it"; it had not relieved his guilt. So Ford shifted from restitution, the first of the twin themes in his life, to retaliation. The rage toward his father that had been sublimated in creativity was turned on people who, in fantasy, stood for his father...