Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Maurice Woodruff predicted that Ronald Reagan would not be reelected. In Italy, Astaroth foresaw that Leonid Brezhnev would be ousted last spring and later murdered. In the U.S., Sybil Leek, self-styled queen of witches, revealed that in October, Richard Nixon would be caught up in a saucy sex scandal that would raise the nation's eyebrows...
...Edwardians by J.B. Priestley. Illustrated. 302 pages. Harper & Row. $ 15. The lower classes were wretched and the Boer War was a scandal, but in the main the Edwardians were as self-possessed as their older brothers, the late Victorians, and a good deal gayer. The Empire was at its apogee; surveying his South African fortune and keeping his subjunctives firmly in place, Cecil Rhodes said, "If there be a God I think he would like me to paint as much of Africa British-Red as possible." Yet great social reforms at home permitted the top authors-Kipling, Shaw and Wells...
After six years of childless marriage, John and Cynthia Burke of Newark decided to adopt a baby boy through a state agency. Since the Burkes were young, scandal-free and solvent, they had no trouble with the New Jersey Bureau of Children's Services?until investigators came to the line on the application that asked for the couple's religious affiliation...
Boston has never been fertile territory for clarinetists. The clarinet situation in the Boston Symphony was an open scandal for many years, until Harold Wright took the first chair this year. Wright established himself as a fine soloist with his performance of the clarinet part in Piston's Second Symphony with the BSO earlier this year. In the Mozart A Major Clarinet Concerto, K. 622, last Sunday night, he demonstrated his exceptional talent quite well. There were a few problems with the performance, however. Wright had some slight mechanical problem with his instrument from the second movement on, which forced...
...family legend, the Teapot Dome scandal of 1924 fixed Nixon's determination-he was eleven at the time -to become a "lawyer who can't be bought" (his mother wanted him to become a missionary). During a high school summer he worked as a carnival barker at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo in Prescott, Ariz.; upon his graduation, the local Harvard Club voted him "best all-around student," but Nixon turned down the chance to apply for a Harvard scholarship and went to Whittier College instead-early intimations of anti-Eastern-liberal-establish-mentarianism perhaps? At Whittier he helped...