Word: lightheartedness
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Whether or not marital infidelity is actually increasing in the U.S., adultery has become almost a lighthearted and guilt-free pastime. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, Dr. Leon Salzman of Georgetown University Medical School noted that, contrary to popular...
Lean and Brassy. What will surprise most listeners is Dylan's voice. Gone is the muffled, macadam-topped speech song of old. Instead, Dylan is definitely doing something that can be called singing. Somewhere, somehow, he has managed to add an octave to his range. The voice itself is...
Easy Answers. After introducing the TV magazine format last fall, 60 Minutes found a pleasing combination in its team of Harry Reasoner (wry essays, light sociology, neighborly wit) and Mike Wallace (aggressive interviews, hard-hitting reporting, biting wit). Yet aside from two informative stories on inequities in the U.S. welfare...
Died. Max Eastman, 86, lusty lion of the left until the late 1930s when he became disenchanted and turned his literary talents to exposing Communism; of a stroke; in Bridgetown, Barbados. Tall, handsome and charming, Eastman captivated women (three marriages, numerous self-publicized affairs), yet nothing equaled his youthful love...
For all his varied experience, says Clark, "nothing prepared me for covering Vietnamese politics, which are unfathomable to the Vietnamese themselves." Viet Nam and its troubles, he says, are an obsessive subject with everyone in the bureau. For occasional lighthearted relief, Clark reports that he and his colleagues have spent...