Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elder Gulbenkian, as miserly as his son was profligate, employed Nubar for a time without salary. This arrangement ended in 1939 after Nubar billed the company $4.50 for a lunch of chicken in tarragon jelly, which he ate at his desk. His father refused to allow the expense, and Nubar sued for $10 million, which he felt was his due on grounds that his father had defaulted on a promise to give him a share of the business. The litigation was withdrawn by Nubar, and when Calouste died in 1955, he left almost his entire fortune, estimated...
...advanced age, Borges is a master at describing people who have come to the end of their world and their dreams. One engaging story, The Elder Lady, concerns an old woman who has not ventured out of her house in Buenos Aires since 1921. "The last pleasures left her," writes Borges, "would be those of memory and, later on, of forgetfulness. She recounted historical happenings, but always using the same words in the same order, as if they were the Lord's Prayer, so that I grew to suspect there were no longer any real images behind them. Even...
...promised to turn over some of his military regime's power. Amin figured in last December's elections, which precipitated the whole tragedy. In those elections Mujib's Awami League won 167 of the 169 Assembly seats at stake; Amin, an independent who enjoyed prestige as an elder statesman, won one of the two others. But he is essentially a figurehead, and former Foreign Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto was appointed his deputy, which means that he will probably have the lion's share of the power. That may come sooner than expected. There were reports last week that Yahya...
...Crooks In Mather House, we'll throw and party For Burriss Young and Skid von State Toast Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orloys Thomas Schelling and Henry Rosovsky We bring glad tidings from afar To Michael Walzer. Judith Shklar, Willard V. Quine and Stanley Cave Jean Mayer, Roger R.D. Revelle, Peter Elder. Martin Kilson William Alfred, J.Q. Wilson Robert Lowell, Robert Kiely. Lawrence Kohlberg. Lawrence Wylie jeremy Sabloff, Jeffrey Brian. J.P. Russo, J.J. Lingane, Albert Sacks and Albert Lord, John K. Fairbank. John M. Ward. Paul A. Freund and Paul A. Cantor. Francis M. and Paul M. Bator. Jack M. Stein...
...Little Swan is uninhabited: the larger island is used principally as an air-navigation and weather-reporting station. Its population consists of a U.S. Federal Aviation Agency technician, four weathermen and 16 civilians, most of them related in a four-generation link to the island's thrice-married elder. Captain Donald Glidden, 79, a Cayman Islander who settled on Swan in 1927. There are also innumerable booby birds, notable for their droppings, which for centuries have been used as fertilizer...