Word: blows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chance encounter with the former Prime Minister of Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. Bani-Sadr recognizes the world renowned educator and, aware of Bok's efforts to make Harvard a force for progress in education throughout the world, the Iranian emigre offers Bok an opportunity to strike a blow for enlightenment and freedom on three continents. The exile tells Bok of the heroic efforts of a group of moderate Iranian educators who are struggling to give students a liberal arts education despite the mullahs' decision to eliminate funding for all programs except Religious and Terroristic Studies, an interdisciplinary degree-granting program...
Certainly, her swift if belated stroke of decisiveness against Enrile dispelled in a single blow much of the turmoil that was unsettling Manila. And when she went on to ax four controversial ministers, while signing a cease- fire with the Communist rebels, Aquino pulled off a strategic coup of her own. Few could doubt that she had mastered the Napoleonic axiom that "justice means force as well as virtue...
...their society, in urgent need of modernization. It is my guess that the Soviets would like to get out of this messy Afghan situation. But they can't. Their puppet regime would not survive a Soviet withdrawal. A departure from Afghanistan would, in the Soviet mind, deal a blow to their strenuously achieved superpower position...
...brother during their troubled childhood, Danny wrestled emotionally with the fact of Neil's going off on his own. Says Danny: "My ex-wife said she felt I loved my brother more than I loved her." Danny wanted to direct his brother's first Broadway show, Come Blow Your Horn; after he failed to get the job, he refused to attend opening night. Danny lived the situation of one of his brother's greatest hits, The Odd Couple -- sharing an apartment with Hollywood Agent Roy Gerber, whose wife had left him -- and wrote 14 pages of a play about...
...Says Danny: "As the years went on, I mellowed. Today I have no antipathy toward Neil. I stopped myself from writing plays, he didn't." Danny often jokes that he has had more plays written about him than Abraham Lincoln or Julius Caesar -- six by his count, from Come Blow Your Horn through Broadway Bound -- and older brothers are featured in at least two of Neil's other works. By far the most tender portrait appears in Brighton Beach Memoirs. Zeljko Ivanek, who played the role, recalls learning that Danny wept on seeing the play. Asked why, Danny replied with...