Word: younger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jonestown: the name of the commune is destined, like Watergate and Viet Nam, to pass into our vocabulary as a synecdoche, a symbol for something larger. The victims cannot be dismissed as mere crazies: many were poor, elderly blacks, but a number were well-educated younger people from seemingly comfortable backgrounds. What united them was partly a fear of freedom, partly a defect in will that led them to surrender blindly to any powerful leader, any strong faith - things they somehow were not able to find in U.S. society and so rejected it. They did so even though the leader...
...Displaced Homemakers Network. She blames the whole spectrum of social change-ever-rising divorce rates, unemployment, inflation, longer life spans, stubborn sexism and ageism. One important new factor, she adds, is the no-fault divorce laws that have been adopted by 47 states. "They are basically beneficial to younger women, but leave older women without bargaining leverage and without enough to live on." All these elements combine, she says, to produce "a large poverty group that was not with us for the long term before...
Reactions to Boney M's flashy feathered costumes and funky music ranged from disgust among the elderly to hand-clapping enthusiasm among the younger set. But one song Muscovites did not get to hear was the group's latest hit, Rasputin. Its lyrics run: "Ra Ra Raspu-teen, lover of the Russian Queen/ Here was a cat that was really gone/ Ra Ra Raspu-teen, Russia's greatest love machine." Soviet officials had cautioned Boney M's producer well in advance of the engagement that the tune might not be appropriate for Moscow audiences...
DIED. Sam Houston Johnson, 64, the late President Johnson's only brother; of cancer; in Austin, Texas. The younger Johnson worked for L.B.J. for three decades, acting, he once explained, as "baby sitter, chauffeur, political troubleshooter, administrative aide and general adviser." In 1970 he published My Brother Lyndon, in which he wrote that anyone who works for L.B.J. for more than 30 days "ought to receive a Purple Heart...
...Moment as an extended stand-up routine or as a screwball romance along the lines of the old Carole Lombard-William Powell comedy, My Man Godfrey (which is quoted in the film). But the movie's subject, a liaison between a bored Beverly Hills matron and a younger man, is too provocative to be entirely laughed away. Wagner deals with this dilemma by switching her tone from scene to scene, almost always without warning. Embarrassingly enough, the sentimental moments are far funnier than Wagner's wisecracks about Southern California mores. The suds are soon indistinguishable from the froth...