Word: bend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collapse of the five-year-old, $12.2 million facility stunned both Kansas City and the visiting architects, among them Jahn, 39. Ironically he had come to receive another citation, this one for a gym in South Bend, Ind., and he heard the bad news while at one of the festive banquets. "It's just terrible," he said. "The building was designed to withstand certain winds and certain conditions, but there are such things as acts of nature...
...anything of consequence on the Middle East without consulting me, and I wouldn't do anything without consulting him." One ranking State Department official endorses Strauss's view of the relationship: "Both Strauss and Vance are acutely aware of rumors about a clash over influence and will bend over backward to avoid...
FICTION: A Bend in the River...
With a rich baritone voice that seemed destined to command, an imperturbability under fire, a refusal to bend with the times or the fashions, A. Philip Randolph overcame opposition simply by being himself. The first national labor leader among American blacks, he forged the Pullman porters into a powerful union and pushed two Presidents into conceding crucial rights by threatening a march on Washington and resistance to the draft. Relatively inactive for many years before his death at 90 last week in Manhattan, Randolph seemed remote and perhaps irrelevant to younger civil rights leaders, but there are scarcely any nonviolent...
...Naipaul is not the sort of writer who needs a metaphor to improve the clarity of his art. Yet this passage from his new novel, A Bend in the River, colors a simple botanical fact with the suggestion of a broader truth. Alex Haley notwithstanding, uprootedness remains the predominant theme of the times. The good modern novelists know this, and Naipaul is one of the best. He is also one of the most exotically unrooted, an Indian, born on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, who has spent most of his life in England. Like his friend Paul Theroux (The Great...