Word: timely
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Oddly enough, even with the erosion of family life and the advent of electronic baby sitters, books still manage to provide the lessons of life for millions of minors. According to Theodor Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss), "The time taken to watch the screen certainly detracts from time to read books. But the paradox is that good kids' books are selling more than ever." Indeed, the broken rhythms of television seem to have encouraged certain forms of literature. "Ten years ago," says Poet and Critic Karla Kuskin, "when I read verse to third-graders their attention span seemed" even shorter...
During her first months in the hospital, she was so helpless that she could not even do what she longed to do-take her own life. She begged a girlfriend to do it for her several times, but the friend refused. Encased in a canvas Stryker frame, Eareckson felt life was meaningless. "All those yardsticks for success that had come to mean so much to me were shattered-being pretty and popular, dating the right guys." The first time she went shopping for clothes, "they just hung on me like a sack." After waves of depression and a phase...
...more to help this neglected minority. Eareckson consciously puts what she calls "the celebrity thing" to good use in this crusade. "Friends who are disabled look on me as a bridge between themselves and the able-bodied population who, for the most part, wouldn't give them the time...
...Jimmy Durante, as the world knows. But could a U.S. President actually call himself Jimmy and get away with it? As it turned out, the answer was no. By calling himself an adoring diminutive, Mr. Carter preempted any possible public urge to do the same. In our own good time we might have come to call him Jimmy, just as we called others before him Ike, Jack and Jerry. But since Mr. Carter took Jimmy for himself, he left no room for any spontaneous objective expression of affection. What followed was disaffection. Two years into the presidency, people not only...
...sported 17, to "Tricky Dick," who needed but one. Either we are growing less fond of our leaders, or they are growing further away from us. In any case, it will be a healthy sign for Mr Reagan should the public start calling him Ronnie or even Sweet Eyes. TIME'S congressional correspondent Neil MacNeil recalls that when Mike DiSalle, then mayor of Toledo, escorted ex-King Michael of Yugoslavia in an open-car parade, the citizens called out to the mayor, "Hey, Mike" and "Mike" this and "Mike" that. The King observed to his host that the people...