Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Intensely personal columns by other writers make this private man uneasy. "It's a terrible problem examining one's entrails in public," says Baker. John Leonard, also of the New York Times, is a columnist whose bouts with existential despair are on weekly view, with results that range from considerable heroics to embarrassing displays of bad taste. Baker has never exploited his family for material, with the forgivable exception of some memorable columns celebrating the archetypal awfulness of vacation car treks along the New Jersey Turnpike. Now and then he rules out a topic for a while because...
Viewed from Broadway, it looked like Mount Rushmore in Manhattan. Joan Sutherland's face was almost 70 ft. high. Leonard Bernstein's baton was as big as a flagpole, and Baryshnikov finally stood as tall as his talent. The giant figures were all performing on an enormous screen that covered the facade of the Metropolitan Opera House. The innovative sound-and-light spectacle marked the 20th anniversary of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts...
...Chiang Ching-kuo denounced the move as a betrayal, saying that never before had the U.S. severed diplomatic relations with an ally. Two weeks after the announcement, U.S. negotiators, led by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, arrived in Taipei to discuss a new relationship. Christopher and U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger were slightly injured when their car was attacked by angry demonstrators and the windows shattered. Christopher promptly warned that the talks would be called off unless the government guaranteed the safety of his mission. Shocked by the unexpected violence, though his government had encouraged the demonstrations, Chiang agreed...
Other studies seem to support Gross's finding. Leonard Eron, a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois, conducted a ten-year investigation, ending in 1970, on 875 third-grade children in a semirural part of New York State. Eron started with the conviction that the impact of television on people was no greater than that of movies, fairy tales or comic strips. He now believes that a "direct, positive relation" exists between TV viewing by small boys and aggressive behavior. Little girls, significantly, did not show any increase in such aggressive behavior. But a new project Eron...
...talk your ear off about any subject, and he loves to do imitations of people ranging from Maxwell Smart to Leonard K. Nash to Brent Musburger. And he's been known to rattle off questions in machine-gun fashion, sometimes leaving no time for a response...