Word: arthur
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Witnessing this worldwide obduracy, writers as disparate as Naturalist Konrad Lorenz and Novelist Arthur Koestler have redefined Homo sapiens as Homo maniacus, arguing that man appears doomed by some inherent quirk to follow the dinosaur into oblivion. Among the apocalyptically minded, the only question is where Armageddon will begin. Harlem or the Hotel Majestic? The Sorbonne or the Sinai Peninsula...
...problem-fixer and a penchant for never repeating a confidence made Lawyer Fortas one of Washington's most influential private citizens long before his court appointment. It also made him a trusted adviser of President Johnson on everything from the Walter Jenkins scandal to the Dominican crisis. When Arthur Goldberg resigned from the court to move to the U.N., Johnson's first choice to replace him was inevitably Fortas. It was a political convenience that Fortas also happened to be Jewish and it was the court's "Jewish seat" that was open...
Bumps & Grinds. Although dated for today's audience-which Balanchine helped educate-Slaughter was a pioneer work that put ballet on Broadway permanently. With high-fidelity hauteur, Suzanne Farrell stormed tantalizingly through the bumps and grinds of the striptease girl, ably partnered by Arthur Mitchell as her jealous hoofer boy friend. The dance was all show-biz flash, far removed from the cool twelve-tone Balanchine ballets in which Farrell has frequently starred...
...Corporation is expected to routinely approve the replacement for Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, who resigned last week to become an executive of the Ford Foundation...
...Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, Assistant Dean for Resources and Planning, will leave Harvard this summer after twenty years as an administrator to become an executive of the Ford Foundation...