Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life did not begin that way. Joan Bennett was the debutante daughter of an advertising executive from Bronxville, N.Y. Educated at Catholic schools, she was 22 when she wed Edward Moore Kennedy. From her wedding day, "Joansie," as Ted called her, found herself buffeted by the demands on a Kennedy wife. The hardest thing, she said shortly after her marriage, "is learning to keep up with the clan." Only years later could she admit: "I tried to be like the Kennedys, bouncy and running all over. But I could never be that." Even her repeated miscarriages seemed a special failure...
money. The President would like to begin 1980 with $5 million in the till. At the moment he has less than $1 million...
More shocks follow Moshe Dayan 's resignation ''I told the Premier that we are subjecting our people to daily shocks.'' lamented an aide to Menachem Begin. ''and we have gone well beyond their ability to absorb those shocks.'' So it seemed...
...plot follows Arthur, Jimmy, Julia, and Hall from their childhood world of church, home and family, through the Civil Rights Movement, to Europe and Africa, through flirtings with Islam or drugs and finally to the mostly white professional world in which they begin to build their futures. All the characters seem bound to each other either by love, blood, or the church, reflecting a perception about black life that Baldwin began fleshing out several novels ago, but all must grapple with some personal demons before they can enjoy their love for one another...
...Faculty originally wanted passed. Dana Leifer '80, a former CUE student member, says the issues CUE discussed "were all generated from the Faculty." Because Bowersock writes the agenda for each meeting, faculty concerns get top billing. "Everything we do is pointless unless it's something the Faculty supported to begin with," Henderson says...