Word: dynamisme
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A jowly, beetle-browed apparatchik, Yakovlev hardly seems the type to blossom amid the flash and dynamism of the Gorbachev era. Officials in agitprop (agitation and propaganda), his longtime career, rarely end up in top Kremlin jobs. Trained as a teacher, Yakovlev became a professional party worker following combat duty...
A department which once led the field is now seen by many American historians as a house divided, which is unable to make appointments and devoid of intellectual dynamism. Indeed, the last time an Americanist was given tenure was in 1980, and that was a joint appointment. Says one Harvard...
Chirac believes turning France more to private enterprise will be beneficial, infusing the economy with fresh dynamism. The unrest, though, is decidedly not leading to new growth. As usual, the French have a word for it. The strike situation, they say, has become so confused that it is downright bordelique...
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 (RCA). Soviet grandeur meets American dynamism in Leonard Slatkin's explosive reading.
Instead, Whitelaw Reid, one of the paper's editors, seized control. The notorious financier Jay Gould almost certainly backed Reid's takeover, but the issue of such unsavory support soon became academic. In 1881 Reid married Elisabeth Mills, whose father had an immense fortune: "The Mills millions turned the paper...