Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...father, a Communist Party official, and his mother, a distinguished historian, spent nearly two decades in labor camps and Siberian exile during the Stalin years. He was raised in provincial Kazan by an aunt, completed medical school in Leningrad and became a popular though officially censured novelist. The Burn, his fictional account of Stalin-era Siberia, was published abroad in 1980. For that offense he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship while traveling in the U.S. and found himself stranded there...
...admiral, depicted the weapons transactions as a straight arms-for-hostages swap with Iran rather than a diplomatic effort to establish contacts with Iranian moderates, as the President has maintained. "I thought it was politically embarrassing," said Poindexter of the finding. "I tore it up, put it in the burn basket behind my desk...
Twenty-eight-year-old Richard Fogarty is currently listed in serious condition at Massachusetts General Hospital's Redstone Burn Center. More than half of his body is covered with burns suffered after he was struck by a sky-blue car just after midnight on the morning of July 10. Fogarty was riding his moped to his Dedham residence after work, when he was hit on the corner of Cambridge St. and Mass Ave. in Central Square...
What is Brownian motion? Who said we should burn with a hard, gemlike flame? How do you translate the phrase comme il faut? Failure to answer questions like these signifies a catastrophic ignorance, according to E.D. Hirsch Jr., a professor of English at the University of Virginia and inventor of the latest intellectual parlor game...
...Hirsch and two academic colleagues offer a 64-page appendix of references that constitutes their version of vital information. They never do get around to telling the reader that Brownian motion is a random movement of microscopic particles suspended in liquids or gases, that Walter Pater said we should burn with a hard gemlike flame and that comme il faut means proper. They are too busy moving their curriculum between the trendy and the arbitrary. Why, for example, is Sartre listed but not Camus? Why Norman Mailer but not Saul Bellow or John Updike? Leonardo but not Michelangelo? Venereal disease...