Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official residence, she quips, "is something between a private home and a public drinking place." The energetic and outspoken author (two novels plus travel and humor works) peoples her pieces with a lively cast of capital types. Melvin Thistle Jr. from State always arrives late; the elderly Baron Spitte switches place cards if he is positioned below the salt, and bitchy Partygoer Popsie Tribble typically advises, "Remember, you're sitting next to a job, not a person." Gotlieb's columns, in the form of letters to a fictional friend back in Ottawa, cast wry glances at officialdom...
...SMOG of international political idiocy descends upon the Los Angeles Olympics, cries have arisen that it's time to extinguish. Baron de Coubertin's torch once and for all. Such arguments strike an increasingly responsive chord, indeed, the last Games to be left unscathed by the non-athletic tug of war between rival states took place in 1968. Since then, we've seen the massacre of 11 Israelis in Munich, the African boycott of Montreal, the U.S. no-show in Moscow, and now, the big nyet from Chernenko and Co. Nor do prospects for the future look good...
...that cut against Hart in the East should help him in Texas, particularly his vote against the windfall-profits tax on domestic oil and his proposal of a $10-per-bbl. fee on imported oil. Furthermore, Hart has inherited many of John Glenn's deep-pocketed donors. Oil Baron James Calaway, who helped raise $1 million for Glenn, raised $125,000 for Hart in a single evening this month. In the Texas caucuses, however, organization and party loyalty count for more than money. Hart's Yumpies (young upwardly mobile professionals) are likely to feel there are more enticing...
Perhaps the most obvious source of Hart's allure is his freshness on the political scene. "He appeals to younger, better-educated and independent types who have little loyalty to institutions," says Alan Baron, an editor of a political newsletter in Washington. "They see Hart as new, independent and not owned by anybody." One of them is Dayton Owens, 27, a high school soccer coach in Jacksonville, Fla.: "He's not made of the old wood trying to take us back to the past instead of leading us to the future." For others in the Hart constituency, merely...
...Israeli planners soon turned to studying Jerusalem's needs instead of international-style manifestoes to fashion their own city rather than another Brasilia. Heeding Historian Lewis Mumford's advice, they looked not to Baron Haussmann, who in the mid-19th century modernized Paris by cutting boulevards through the city's medieval fabric, but to Isaiah 65: 19, 21: "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people . .. and they shall build houses, and inhabit them...