Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fascinated by Cartoonist Conrad's portrayal of Father Ford bestowing a penitential blessing on a kneeling and presumably shriven New York City [Dec. 22]. I wonder if Conrad knows that he has the President of the United States giving the Boy Scout sign and not the ancient Christian gesture (index and middle fingers only) of God's peace. Intentional or unintentional, the bonus of that extra finger for New York serves to heighten the humor...
...their own role as breadwinner, for example. But it would be foolhardy to ignore the many men who regard the women's upsurge as a threat and try to keep women?wives, daughters, co-workers?in "their place." As more women arrive on the job market, more men may wonder if they will lose their own posts...
Many clients wonder if Fluor could handle any more work anyway. But Bob Fluor is still hiring top engineers and diversifying into new fields, including nuclear engineering. "Ultimately, the U.S. is going to use the energy resources that it has here," he says, once again looking to a brighter future. Meanwhile, with its gigantic foreign contracts, Fluor can well afford to wait...
...Teresas" are a classic example. St. Teresa of Avila was a mystic and 16th century religious reformer who, according to legend, stood mired in the mud on one of her journeys and cried out to God: "If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You don't have many!" St. Therese of Lisieux was a sickly 19th century nun who died young and unknown. Her principal virtue was an awesome courage in the face of her long and excruciating fatal illness. Similarly, the church has sainted kings and rebels against kings, noblemen and tramps, virgins...
...would be looking for second husbands. Now they want to become schoolteachers." Adds a more affluent fellah: "It's the very poorest people here who are trying hardest to educate their children. They see education as a way to escape the misery and drudgery of farm life." No wonder. In the delta, a two-acre farmer like Hammouda is lucky to earn $400 a year; a landless farmworker makes only half that much. Even life in the slums of Cairo, to many of the young, sounds better than that...