Word: afar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave him, which means "Joy comes home." His home, day in, year out, is the track. His joy, publicly expressed, will be privately savored. Says he: "There is a feeling that one who performs in public becomes a public property. I do not believe that." Daley is adored from afar, the distance he likes best. He plans to rest now for a year, then tram for a try at a third gold in 1988. The world record, he said at his celebratory press conference, "would have been nice. But all I wanted to do was win." While the gold...
...indeed to have a friend come from afar?" Gracefully quoting those words from Confucius, Pope John Paul II last week began a five-day visit to South Korea,* a land where exuberant Christianity today all but overshadows Confucianism. The welcoming ceremony for the Pontiff was sedate, since Seoul's airport had been swept virtually clean of onlookers. Extraordinary security preparations, caused in part by assassination threats, were everywhere evident-and perhaps necessary. Sunday morning, three days after his arrival, the Pope was en route to Seoul's Myong Dong Cathedral when a deranged-looking young man dashed...
...blue-blooded WASP background, Caleb is an unremarkable though sensitive young man who chooses a career in business because, as he explains, it seems romantic. Like so many members of his generation, Caleb senses inviting mystery in the world of pinstripe suits, technical jargon and commanding salaries. From afar, business appears to be a Darwinian struggle which rewards hard work and innovation...
...been buzzed during an important dance by a low-flying photographer from up the road in Santa Fe. In another day, some of the more outraged Pueblo might have divided him into several parts. In these litigious times, they sued for $3.65 million. How quaint the tale appeared from afar. (Damages? "Infertility." Sex or soil? "Both.") And how levelheaded and 20th century it turned out to be from the ground. (Damages? "You can never put a monetary value on disturbances of this kind. What we want more than anything else is to follow our religious practices without interference. Besides, juries...
...killings, as he does it in the pieces collected here, is a touchy matter. The author's franchise is broad but unclear. A newspaper routinely covers the murders in its area if the central characters are celebrated or the crimes gaudy, and offers a selection of corpses from afar if both conditions are met. Duty requires this; the news must be reported, however disgustingly fascinating. Trillin is under no such absolving obligation...