Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forces. Last week Cerezo announced that one of his first goals will be to clean up the security apparatus. He declared, "The army cannot limit the power of the head of the armed forces (the President), and if they try to do so, they will have to create a coup...
...particularly fine sequence of early Kandinskys); but it is strong on artists who belonged to neither, such as Wilhelm Lehmbruck, whose war-induced suicide in 1919 at the age of 38 truncated what might have been one of the great sculptural oeuvres of the 20th century. The best coup is to have reunited the two completed parts of Grosz's blistering anti-establishment triptych of 1926, Eclipse of the Sun and Pillars of Society. The latter, with its beer-hall vision of the coming new order--a servile journalist wearing a chamber pot, a flabby blimp of a politician with...
...been unfortunate. The Law School has been unable to tenure faculty from other schools since 1981 and has had routinely to promote junior faculty to fill teaching positions. With several liberal junior faculty members coming up for tenure this spring, many of the moderates and conservatives fear a leftist coup which might permanently divide the faculty. The result could be an unfortunate migration of some of Harvard's most prized legal experts...
Left wing Ed Krayer of St. Paul's was another recruiting coup for the Crimson. The 6-ft., 170-lb., freshman was taken 150th overall in the NHL draft, going to the New Jersey Devils in the eighth round...
DIED. William McPherson Allen, 85, former president (1945-68) and chief executive officer (1968-72) of the Boeing Co.; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; at his home in Seattle. Allen led Boeing's post-World War II re-entry into the commercial market. Perhaps his greatest coup was staking $16 million on the construction of a swept-wing prototype for a commercial jet, which later evolved into the Boeing...