Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sept. 23 -Frank Zappa's wife gives birth to another child, which they name Nylon Zappa...
...Some say that you can't rationalize the plight of the kids," observes the Hudson Institute's Frank Armbruster, "you have got to feel it. The same thing is true of Middle America; you have to feel it." The Middle Americans cherish, apprehensively, a system of values that they see assaulted and mocked everywhere?everywhere except in Richard Nixon's Washington. "This," they will say with an air of embarrassment that such a truth need be stated at all, "is the greatest country in the world. Why are people trying to tear it down...
Middle Americans would generally like to see the quality of black education improve. But the idea of sacrificing their own children's education to a long-range improvement for blacks appalls them. "They moved to the suburbs for their children, to get fresh air and find good schools," says Frank Armbruster. But programs such as bussing "negated all their sacrifices to provide their children an education...
...natured ode to the end of innocence -a kind of motorized Huckleberry Finn. William Faulkner's original novel spun a mellow tale about an eleven-year-old lad named Lucius McCaslin and his wild-eyed adventures on a trip to Memphis in 1905. Screenwriters Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., having done previous Faulkner adaptations in The Long Hot Summer and The Sound and the Fury, by this time know the Yoknapatawpha territory more than passing well. Their sharp and reverent screenplay, featuring a felicitous narration by Burgess Meredith, helps make The Reivers one of the year...