Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professor at Brown who taught students about espionage but "never asked (the students) to consider the morality of it all." That professor is Lyman Kirkpatrick, former executive director of the CIA and perhaps the most moral man ever to serve in a high echelon there. Moral considerations were central to the course, and moral discussions were so long and so frequent that someone half-jokingly suggested the course be offered in the Philosophy Department. Welcome to journalism, fella...
...Fundamentally, we accept the role of the central government in foreign and defense policy," says Sheik Ezzedin Hosseini, a Kurdish spiritual leader. "But beyond that, we want to run our own show." Hosseini, like almost every other Kurdish leader, rejects separatism, if only because a cutoff from the oil-funded Iranian national budget would be disastrous...
...what Chrysler wants. In 1971 Lockheed was rescued with a federal loan guarantee for $250 million of its private debt. But that cost the taxpayers nothing, and by the time the Lockheed loans were paid off in 1977, the Government made a profit of $31 million in fees. Perm Central's plea for a handout in 1970 was ignored, and the Government stood by while the company went bankrupt...
...resort needs a helping hand. It has lost many vacationers to the Caribbean islands and to attractions like Walt Disney World in central Florida. Many of the old hotels are barely surviving; many shops have shut their doors. Where young people once cha-chaed through the night, now the elderly struggle to survive on their Social Security checks...
...Lulu's patron, husband and prime victim, Bass-Baritone William Dooley mordantly conveys the opera's central drama of worldly power and rationality being ravaged by the primal erotic instinct. Among other solid supporting performances, Bass-Baritone Andrew Foldi is funny and touching as Schigolch, the old man who may be Lulu's father and who is as good a key as any to Berg's newly retrieved third act. Schigolch is the none too comforting image of what is left after passion and violence are spent: a scrabbling, wheezy, lecherous rag bag of a survivor...