Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book's interviews unveil Kerouac's immense sensitivity to and faith in human beings. Carolyn Cassidy claimed that "Jack fell in love with every woman he saw," intimating that he was always worried about hurting his friends and the women he knew. Thus, we are shown a very shy man. Some of Kerouac's childhood friends say that he did not have many girlfriends during high school because his "shyness was always taken as conceit...
THURSDAY. Rosalynn is restless, awakes at 4:30 a.m. Carter wakes up, too, decides to go right to work. He telephones Brzezinski and asks security adviser to bring over some papers. The pace is tiring everybody. During nightly movies, Begin keeps falling asleep, once while watching An Unmarried Woman. At a showing of Patton, Weizman makes a graphic point: "If this thing falls apart, this is what we're going to have?another war." On this day conference almost does fall apart. Carter shuttles between Israelis and Sadat, who is emotional, one minute hopeful, the next gloomy. Despite Carter...
...Esteli, the last town to fall, tales of mindless brutality were recounted by bitter survivors. A young mother carrying her baby in a search for milk was machine-gunned without warning; the woman and her child died instantly. A ten-year-old boy, witnesses testified, was dragged from his house and shot, and half a dozen teen-agers were lined up against a wall and gunned down. One 14-year-old boy was tortured by guardsmen, who cut open his chest with a knife...
...this year is different. After only 18 months in office, Chief Justice Rose Bird, the first woman ever put on the California high court, is in danger of becoming the first justice ever voted off it. Last week the state G.O.P. came out against her as "a serious threat to the California courts"; by November a coalition of Bird hunters will have spent upwards of $600,000 on a campaign to clip the judge's wings. Late last week, Bird's chances of hanging on improved somewhat when the State Supreme Court approved the constitutionality of Proposition 13, the highly...
...former public defender with a liberal background (at 15 she campaigned for Adlai Stevenson), a graduate of Berkeley's law school, Bird, 41, is also under fire for her vote in a controversial rape case. A man who had raped a woman over a four-hour period, while holding a knife over her and inflicting minor lacerations, did not commit "great bodily injury," ruled the court. The majority opinion was written by one of Bird's temporary appointees, and Bird concurred, alienating law-and-order advocates and many feminists, her natural allies...