Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citation describes him as "a tireless opponent of poverty and injustice, a stalwart Christian leader offering life and hope to the downtrodden and defeated...
Thirty years ago, the interned Japanese-most of them U.S.-born or relatively assimilated-tried to turn Tule Lake into an American small town. Boy Scout troops and English classes sprang up, as well as softball and basketball leagues. Christian and Buddhist churches were formed and young people danced the jitterbug and the foxtrot under the eyes of watchful parents...
...brother Joseph in their syndicated newspaper column "Matter of Fact." As scions of an old Republican Connecticut family, the Alsop boys were in a unique position. While more mundane journalists attended press conferences, the Alsops lunched with fellow Grotonian Dean Acheson or shot quail with then Secretary of State Christian Herter. But, unlike Joe, Stewart had no arrogance, either socially or journalistically. Said one friend: "Joe's the kind of guy who can rise from an interview with a famous source and say, 'Sir, you have just wasted 30 minutes of my time.' Stew would never...
...Burgess novel is frequently an embarrassment of riches, a kind of conspicuous consumption of exotic plot thickeners, linguistic games, disturbing tragicomedy, Manichaean trampoline acts and Christian and mythological symbolism. Thematically speaking, anything goes-as Burgess demonstrated three years ago in MF, a novel of contemporary incest based on an Algonquin Indian myth. In his latest offering, Napoleon Symphony, the author, who is also a serious composer, has reached for everything from kazoos to pipe organs. The result is a mock epic about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte that sometimes reads like Dickens, sometimes like Tennyson and Wordsworth, with an occasional...
Burgess, the Christian moralist, appears to agree. His reasons are worked out in a fugue of ideas at the book's end where the exiled, cancerous-perhaps even dead-Napoleon encounters a mysterious female apparition. Since she coldly puts Napoleon in his place, she may well be Clio, the Muse of history...