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...When someone is in power, he is bound to make mistakes; then criticism is good but everyone fears it. We are tougher on the outside than inside. If you are in power, people will hate you. As chairman of the School Committee hearing on Frisoli. I felt like a worm when people booed and hissed me as I walked out. What else can you do to someone's ego? To stop thinking about your ego is the key thing. If you can't get over it, you can't do anything else...

Author: By Patti B. Saris, | Title: Barbara Ackermann: Not Your Typical Boss | 12/15/1972 | See Source »

FAVORITE DRINK: Hairy Buffalo (real Tequila with a worm, Rheingold Beer, Hoods Milk, and a twist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dake It or Leave It | 10/14/1972 | See Source »

...pity the robin that tries to pluck a worm from a plastic "lawn" or build a nest in a synthetic "juniper." I pity any living thing that tries to live in the James Cummings' artificial "garden" [Aug. 7]. But most of all, I pity the people who are so insensitive as to mock and defile nature by conjuring up a plastic landscape in one of the most beautiful areas of the world-the Pacific Northwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 28, 1972 | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...rights, the American woman today should be the happiest in history. She is healthier than U.S. women have ever been, better educated, more affluent, better dressed, more comfortable, wooed by advertisers, pampered by gadgets. But there is a worm in the apple. She is restless in her familiar familial role, no longer quite content with the homemaker-wife-mother part in which her society has cast her. Round the land, in rap session and kaffeeklatsch, in the radical-chic salons of Manhattan and the ladies auxiliaries of Red Oak, Iowa, women are trying to define the New Feminism. The vast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where She Is and Where She's Going | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

...should I be mad? And you, YOU can sure as hell see ME. Why just step back into the woods with me about half a mile and my dog'll trot along to drag you out after I'm finished with you and your goddamn measly worm-eaten carcass...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

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