Word: self
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some argue that by capitulating to the Iranian students we will dishonor ourselves and invite any terrorist to take advantage of us. If the demands were unjust and self-serving this would be true. They are not. Is it capitulation to admit we were wrong? Is it dishonorable to accede to a righteous demand...
...they give it to you just as determinedly, except with the pinky raised delicately away from the tea cup. "Amahl and the Night Visitors," Giancarlo Menotti's Christmas opera about a crippled shepherd boy who makes good, is on PBS, Dec. 22 at 8 p.m. The "Joy of Bach," (self-explanatory) is the next night at 8 p.m., and then, "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street," Monday the 24th at 8 p.m. The schedule promises a "special interview" with Henry A. Kissinger on "The Dick Cavett Show" Saturday the 22nd at 11:30 p.m. (times vary in other cities). Maybe nice...
Irving likes to read from his most recent chapter-in-progress because "it's boring to read finished works--they're a dead issue. There's a different kind of self awareness that you get when you read to an audience than when you read to an old friend or your kids," he added...
Darkness Visible, By William Golding. (Farrar, Straus Giroux, $10.95): Last time you read Golding you were in sixth grade: Teacher handed you Lord of the Flies; you read it, you staggered, and understood why the bully relished slamming the seesaw over your head during recess. You self-pityingly gazed in the mirror, shook your head and whispered "Piggy...
...encourage simple repitition. (Although at Jordan Marsh they encourage nothing since the display models are mostly out of batteries except for one called "Einstein," which sounds, from its weary beep, to be operating at about one-tenth normal charge.) One machine obviously designed to increase a child's self-confidence, boasts simply "I am programmed to beat you." Even Etch-A-Sketch, once a marvelously cranky mechanical drawing toy, has been automated...