Word: conventioners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The city's role in modern diplomacy began with the Battle of Solferino in Italy in 1859. A Genevan traveler, Henri Dunant, was so appalled by the spectacle of the wounded French and Austrian soldiers left to die on the battlefield that he wrote an indignant book titled Un Souvenir...
Though Pickens is busy running Mesa, making speeches and hatching future deals, he may also have political ambitions. He found time to attend last summer's Republican National Convention as a delegate and to chair a fund- raising drive for President Reagan. Gerald Ford recently visited with him in Amarillo...
These risible convolutions are undercut by another novelistic device: the interweaving of the dialogue with "spoken thoughts," asides from each character to himself and the audience. Form tangles with content here. Thematically, Strange Interlude is a tragedy about the dilemma of convention vs. desire, decorous actions vs. lancing passions. Formally...
State Democrats have begun preparing for their spring Issues Convention to be held May 17 and 18 in Springfield, Mass.. Five Cantabrigians will be there to put in their two cents worth.
Last week's decision was opposed by 30% of the Conservative rabbinate, and women were admitted only through parliamentary finesse. A three-fourths majority is normally necessary to approve an individual candidate. In 1983 and 1984 the Rabbinical Assembly convention fell short of that vote on a move to allow...