Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown regained its two-goal advantage on Lisa Bishop's second rally of the game early in the second stanza, but two minutes later, the Harvard fireworks began...
...Antony and Cleopatra, then went on to Hamlet. In America most major modern poets have obeyed Gide's injunction. The result is a vigorous body of English verse that encompasses such varied sources as Icelandic epics (W.H. Auden), La Fontaine's fables (Marianne Moore), Brazilian poetry (Elizabeth Bishop), Russian lyrics (Stanley Kunitz) and contemporary Hungarian poetry (William Jay Smith...
Other writers have been tempted to speak for Molière, often with lamentable results. In the 1950s, Poet Morris Bishop translated eight Molière plays into verse that fell as flat as his unrhymed pentameter. The latest effort is a musical-comedy version of The Miser in jive talk...
...balloting is free, fair and open. But U.S. diplomats are concerned that Sir Eric Gairy, 62, the country's first Prime Minister following independence in 1974, will make a comeback. He was ousted after five years of increasingly brutal, eccentric and corrupt rule. Gairy's successor, Maurice Bishop, was deposed by a hard-line faction of his leftist New Jewel Movement and murdered six days before U.S. troops arrived. The trial of 19 former New Jewel members accused of the deaths of Bishop, 39, and ten of his followers resumes this week...
...President's apparent belief in a particular biblical scenario for the end of the world means that he might consider nuclear war a divine instrument. Accordingly, more than 100 religious figures, many from the antinuclear left (among them the Rev. William Sloane Coffin and Pacifist Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton), held a Washington press conference last week to declare it "profoundly disturbing" that high political leaders "might identify with extremists who believe that nuclear war is inevitable and imminent." They also attacked the religious right for supposedly believing "that reconciliation with America's adversaries is ultimately futile...