Word: whose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM. Woody Allen wrote and stars in this story of a neurotic young man whose wife has just left him. The play does not progress along with the evening, but Allen's kooky angle of vision and nimble jokes are amusement enough...
...Once a bitterly outspoken foe, Harry Truman, now 84, remembered that before the two men were political opponents, they were "comrades in arms. And I cannot forget his services to his country and to Western civilization." Many others, like Truman, chose to remember Eisenhower not as the 34th President, whose stewardship may long be disputed, but as the "soldier of peace" who led the greatest alliance of armies the world has ever seen, or will likely see again...
...small cafe in Madrid. "When I get out, we will go to the country and roast a lamb." With that, Luisa Isabel Alvarez de Toledo Maura, 32, Duchess of Medina Sidonia, crossed the street to a courthouse to begin serving a one-year prison sentence. The duchess, whose title* is one of the most venerated in her country, was convicted of illegal protest when she led the villagers of Palomares on a protest trip to Madrid on the first anniversary of the crash of a U.S. bomber bearing a load of H-bombs near the town...
Unattached Feet. Churchill's style is less graceful and literary than that of his grandfather, whose own career was similarly launched in journalism. Young Winston writes more directly, though not as well.* He described hunger victims in Biafra: "Their bellies were as large as a pregnant woman's, their limbs like matchsticks, and some had testicles swollen to the size of a large grapefruit." His ear is attuned to the poignant quote, such as the plea of a starving boy who approached a priest and asked: "Father, what is happening to my body?" He lets unadorned facts convey...
...BELOVED Country is still thriving. We make some few concessions to conscience: PBH will send no volunteer teachers to Rhodesia this year and President Goheen of Princeton agreed last month to stop investing in companies whose fortunes fall from South Africa. But the liberal corporatism of Chase Manhattan and Standard Oil still shores up the regime...