Word: whim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farmers and small-town people. Later he flew airmail between St. Louis and Chicago, which in the primitive conditions of the '20s was about as hazardous as riding the Pony Express through a tribe of angry Comanches. A natural flyer, with as certain a feel for the whim of his plane as a bareback rider for his horse, he was ineluctably drawn to aviation's biggest prize: $25,000, offered by a New York hotel owner for the first successful completion of the 3,600-mile solo flight between New York and Paris. With the backing of some...
...replace the President in the event of death or incapacity and that he preside over the Senate. The former is hardly a full-time job, and the latter is a ridiculous chore, increasingly honored by neglect. Any additional duties are given to a Vice President at the discretion and whim of the President and, as Hubert Humphrey knowingly reminded Gerald Ford earlier this year, "he who giveth can taketh away-and often does...
Though the plot is like a Ross Macdonald garden of sin buried and retribution delayed, the book resembles a conventional detective story only when Mark Smith's whim turns to parody. Like the two dozen other fully drawn figures who crowd the story, Detective Magnuson seems something less than real, and neither the reader-nor the author-is sure just how seriously to take...
...train herself as an auto mechanic. More recently, there has been a growing recognition that many middle class women turn to work to relieve the psychic poverty of their lives. But America has yet to acknowledge the incontrovertible fact that the vast majority of women work neither for whim nor for pleasure. They work (as do the vast majority of men) because if they don't work, they...
Onstage, wearing numerated football jerseys, work shirts and crisp khakis, C. S. N. & Y. work energetically through a grueling 3½-hour set. In between numbers the group confers in a football huddle, selecting songs by collective whim but carefully allowing each artist a chance to display his own material. Packed tightly together in front of the stage, teen-agers too young to have been concertgoers in 1970 sway in a mass and sing every word of Carry On. Older C. S. N. & Y. fans occupy stadium bleacher seats, many with small children...