Word: unhappiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...connoisseur of the seven deadly sins. She possesses a special genius for decorating the interior of a character's mind, no matter how pinched by wrath, avarice, sloth, pride, lust, envy or greed. Her masterpiece is The Man Who Loved Children (1940), the story of the unhappiest family dwelling in literature since the House of Atreus...
...credit and climbing interest rates, in Stein's view, will cool the enthusiasm of businessmen wanting to borrow for further expansion. Perhaps-but meanwhile worries mount. Economist Beryl Sprinkel, an Administration supporter, spoke for many politicians, businessmen and consumers last week when he said, "This is the unhappiest boom I have ever lived through...
...unhappiest Democrats these days is Lyndon Johnson, who sits on his Texas ranch recovering from his heart attack, seething in frustration at the turn his party has taken, and perhaps feeling a bit like King Lear. He would love to attend the convention, but refused Democratic National Committee Chairman Lawrence O'Brien's personal invitation. Johnson knows that his presence there would only open the old party wounds, reminding everyone that he represented what McGovern wants to repudiate. "Lyndon just doesn't carry any weight in the party," says a longtime political associate, "and he knows...
...unhappiest part of the President's school proposals was their sequence. Had he but placed his recommendations for increased aid to needy schools first and the call for a busing moratorium second, we might have felt that it was deprived schoolchildren and their education that he truly cared about. As was, by hitting first hardest on the "evils" of busing, he gave the unmistakable impression that his first concern was votes, not children...
...unhappiest side effect that I see right now is that the emphasis on a woman developing her own creative talents is equated by most casual observers with working outside the home. Many young husbands are actually insisting that their wives work outside the home. The men really like the money, and they can claim a liberal stance...