Word: eccentricism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
As McGraw-Hill began to pay Irving for his work, the writer insisted that all checks be made out to "H.R. Hughes." That permitted his wife Edith, posing as "Helga R. Hughes," to deposit the checks in a Swiss bank account. Irving and a coconspirator, Richard Suskind, carefully researched Hughes...
Founded in the early 1970s, Sendero Luminoso claims as many as 1,000 members, most of them peasants and students from the mountains. Their eccentric ideology is mingled with a curious form of messianic tribalism. The Senderistas use Inca slingshots, for example, to fling dynamite sticks at targets. The guerrillas...
The University of the South, founded in 1857 by three Episcopal bishops, is a fitting place for eccentric legacies. The campus was destroyed during the Civil War before a student ever enrolled. Afterward, churches in England donated funds to rebuild the school, and Oxford and Cambridge universities gave books for...
The plot is simple young, fabulously wealthy, wildly extravagant and supposedly beautiful Eve Tozer (Bess Armstrong) stops doing the Charleston on Istanbul tabletops long enough to learn that she has 12 days to lind her long lost father. Should she fail to exhibit him in a British court in that...
John Paul's bold and crucial pilgrimage begins Wednesday in relatively placid Costa Rica, the base from which he will make hops to three other nations. One will be Nicaragua, which is ruled by a Marxist-dominated government in which several priests hold high positions despite papal displeasure. John...