Word: belovedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In the run-up to the polling, hundreds were dying in clashes between Mandela's African National Congress and its Zulu rival, the Inkatha Freedom Party. On election eve, bombs set by white extremists shook Johannesburg. Civil war seemed all too possible. Yet one year later, blacks and whites feel...
"Meritites" translates as "beloved of her father."
I think the legal profession is justifiably nervous for several reasons. First, lawyers have never been the most beloved members of our society. They occupy the same position as a math nerd in junior high--we go to her when we need help, but that doesn't mean we'd...
There is some of this romantic, celebratory quality in Memoir from Antproof Case (Harcourt Brace; 514 pages; $24), but reasonableness does not rule. As we meet the novel's main character, he is 80 or so, hiding out in Brazil from real or imagined assassins, writing down his adventures and...
DIED. BURL IVES, 85, goateed crooner and actor beloved by generations of children for his mellifluous renditions of Frosty the Snowman and The Blue Tail Fly; in Anacortes, Washington. Among the best known of Ives' many stage and screen roles were his starring appearance as Big Daddy in the original...