Word: authority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idols--Arnold's idol in acting was Burt Reynolds. Arnold bantered with the waiters, it was always Arnold, not Arnold Schwarzenegger or Mr. Schwarzenegger or Mr. Arnold. That meant something to Hercules, it meant that Arnold was more than a weightlifter or an actor or a businessman or an author--Arnold was Arnold. Suddenly Hercules desperately wanted a pair of blue armadillo boots...
...Indeed, author Michael Ryan '72 is "uniquely qualified to provide such advice" as a former homunculus in the "Harvard public-relations department" who shuttled "the occasional Pakistani dignitary between John K. Galbraith's lecture and the Faculty Club bar," Ryan states in his article...
DIED. Richard Rovere, 64, astute political reporter and author who for 30 years wrote the Washington Letter for The New Yorker; of emphysema; in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. The New Jersey-born son of an electrical engineer, Rovere graduated from Columbia and worked as an editor at the Nation before joining The New Yorker in 1944. A liberal who had once flirted with Communism, Rovere was noted for his fairness, his objectivity and his ability to place politics in perspective...
DIED. Immanuel Velikovsky, 84, Russian-born psychoanalyst and iconoclastic author, whose unorthodox theories of cosmic evolution, published in 1950 as Worlds in Collision, outraged scientists; in Princeton, N.J. Combining a vast knowledge of biblical and mythological lore with his study of Freud's analysis of the subconscious mind of Moses, Velikovsky developed a controversial theory of colliding planets. He contended-in total violation of the laws of celestial mechanics-that a fragment from the planet Jupiter brushed by earth in 1500 B.C. before settling into orbit as the planet Venus. The cataclysmic encounter, he claimed, caused hurricanes and floods...
...nation's wise man warns that the stone is the heart of Karnica: "If we remove it, the kingdom will die." But in such stories, the rulers never listen, giving the author an opportunity to draw a powerful moral about conservation. It is no accident that Sierra Club Books is a co-publisher...