Word: befallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...family member in Athens glumly calls the affair a "disaster that has befallen us." For Christina, report friends, it is quite the opposite: the happy ending to a romance that began in Paris in 1976. It was there that she first met Sergei Kauzov, 37, a slender, quiet man with thinning blond hair, a mouth glistening with gold teeth, and a glass eye that he now and then calmly removes and replaces in public. A graduate of a Moscow foreign-language institute, Kauzov is fluent in French and English as well as his native Russian. He had been sent...
...Deedee were members of Emma's company before their marriage, and the long-time-no-see's flow freely backstage between the Rodgers and the older faces in the company. The joyous encounter between Deedee and Emma takes a bitter turn when Deedee contrasts the varied fates that have befallen them following their climactic competition for the same career-launching part in the ballet Anna Karenina. Emma reminds Deedee, "You got pregnant," and the housewife-instructor retorts, "And you got 19 curtain calls...
...Vision by pointing out some of these surface similarities between the Freud and Erikson schools. Freud grounded his theory of the primacy of sexual drive in a new and suggestive vocabulary (libido, repression, transference, regression) that was assimilated widely, if often too crudely. The same fate has befallen Erikson's catch-words "identity crisis," "life cycle," and the adjective "psycho-social." Freud also cultivated his Vienna Circle, which he assembled to carry on his legacy after his death; while Erikson never has sought to institutionalize his influence in the same way, an informal school of sorts did spring...
...destroy the tapes in the face of Congress' requests. This stand may have reflected more self-interest than team loyalty: the tapes were damaging to Connally's own integrity. His indictment for involvement with the milk fund bribes was the last in the string of political blows that have befallen Big John in the past few years...
Harvard might have done better in the final standings had tragedy not befallen the Crimson's only other entrants, the twomile relay team...