Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stocky fellow with curly red hair, Beltrante, 49, runs Investigations, Inc., his own twelve-person detective agency, out of Alexandria, Va. He is just as proud of the autographed pictures of George McGovern and Gerald Ford on the wall as he is of the electronic tools of his sometimes esoteric trade. It was he who debugged the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate after the White House plumbers were caught wiring the place. And four years later, Ford's election committee hired Beltrante to screen applicants for key strategy posts...
Died. Wernher von Braun, 65, German-born impresario of the U.S. space program; of cancer; in Alexandria, Va. (see SCIENCE...
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...essay progresses much as Keeley would have Cavafy's myth evolve--from the first tentative attempts to circumscribe a subject to the buildup of a multicellular organism in which each part functions to the betterment of the whole. Keeley first discusses the interplay between the literal city of Alexandria and Cavafy's mythical counterpart. He then treats each plane--the sensual (contemporary) and historical--separately, and finally unifies the two in a brief discussion of the poet's latest work, and the beginnings of a "universal mode," which led George Seferis, a Cavafy scholar, to state...