Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There were tears in Los Angeles and cackles in a certain New York City borough on Jan. 6. Forty years after his father removed the family business to L.A. from Brooklyn, Peter O'Malley announced that he was selling the firm--namely, the Dodgers. By transplanting the beloved Bums to...
By outward appearances, Newt Gingrich was spending his Christmastime in an unusually relaxed manner. He gazed upon his beloved dinosaur bones at the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, then traveled with his wife Marianne to visit relatives in Pennsylvania. But the leisurely itinerary masked grave deliberations between the Speaker...
Mary left active fieldwork in 1983 and retired to a five-acre compound near Nairobi with her books and her Dalmatians. "Actually, given a chance, I'd rather be in a tent than in a house," she told a reporter this summer. In August the unflappable, cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking...
The religious fringe of the Web does have some harbingers of mutual tolerance, even convergence. Many Websites exhibit one hallmark of the scientific age: theological minimalism. Confident claims about the afterlife are rare, and notions of God are often vague. The ecospiritualists may pay homage to Gaia or indulge in...
Contrary to what Mr. Hicks implies in the American Scholar, boarding schools do not exist as holding grounds for uncooperative and malfunctioning adolescents. Dauber argues, "Sure, if adolescents are really awful, then maybe, just maybe, Hicks' beloved boarding schools have some reason for sticking around." But Dauber seems to believe...