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...Level Free-Anent Six-year contract worth $3 million Stock options and deferred payment as a fringe benefit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Read These Upside Down | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

...Anent the nameless "Jewish leader" who angrily warned Secretary of State William Rogers, "Don't think you can get our support, Mr. Secretary, for any kind of imposed settlement now being cooked up [for the Middle East]" [May 9]: Just who designated this person as spokesman for the American Jewish community, whose support he dares threaten to withhold from the legally constituted representative of the American people charged with the conduct of our foreign relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1969 | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...Anent your article on anarchists [May 24]: observing the anarchists' consistent alienation from reality, a 19th century critic summed up their program in two statements: 1) there shall be no law and order; 2) no one is required to comply with the preceding statement. Each generation of anarchists draws its inspiration from this "program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 7, 1968 | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

...knowledge of history oft strips the veneer from the upstart. Anent Teddy Kennedy's tear-jerking plea [Oct. 29] that the family of Judicial Nominee Frank Morrissey were so poor that their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs," he discloses his complete and puerile ignorance of skilled custom cobbling. For a long time, handcrafted shoes and boots had soles and heels secured by hardwood pegs. This produced a beautiful, unsewn appearance, and the pegs wore down commensurately with the leather, avoiding the damage to elegant floors and the skidding on sidewalks caused by nails that wear more slowly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1965 | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

Their arguments are anent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond the Age of Anxiety | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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