Word: elders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed to hold direct presidential elections, the two Kims promised to settle on a single candidate. But neither would yield to the other. Kim Young Sam entered the race last month. Last week was Kim Dae Jung's turn. Acknowledging that his candidacy "might unintentionally benefit antidemocratic forces," the elder Kim nonetheless declared that he will seek the post "to fulfill my responsibility to history...
...proposal to have the Reunification Democrats pick a single candidate. In an eleventh-hour appeal, Kim Young Sam then sent an aide to urge the more volatile Kim Dae Jung to remain inside the party. When that plea also failed, Kim Young Sam declared that he viewed the elder Kim's defection with "extreme regret." Taking 27 of the party's 70 National Assembly members with him, Kim Dae Jung formed a new faction tentatively called the Peace and Democracy Party...
When the Republicans returned to Washington in 1981 after a four-year hiatus, so too did Luce, resuming her position on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Throughout her last years, the elder stateswoman held court among young Republicans as a kind of inspirational eminence, an unmistakable figure at every conservative function, silver-haired, bright- eyed, dripping pearls and epigrams. Of all the laurels bestowed upon her in recent years, perhaps the most fitting was the Sylvanus Thayer Award, West Point's highest civilian honor, given to those who best embody the academy's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country...
...puddled with water and transformed into a dusty plain in primeval India -- resonates with such ritual images, haunting metaphors, aphoristic dialogue and spiritual searching. The event, viewable in a marathon day or in three installments, is The Mahabharata, the most ambitious production yet by Peter Brook, 62, the visionary elder statesman among stage auteur directors. A French version originated in Avignon in 1985, then played to sold-out houses in Paris in 1986. The English-language premiere transfers this week from the Los Angeles Festival, where it played in a cavernous studio, to a twelve-week run in a more...
...statesman is a politician with a paunch, then an elder statesman of rock is an outlaw who has honorably served his time. Next week Chuck Berry turns 61. But last week rock's black prince saw his time come again. It began with a standing ovation at the New York Film Festival for the world premiere of Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, a slick, irreverent documentary with enough bop-till-you-drop golden hits to leave the springs broken in every Lincoln Center seat. On Tuesday Berry was back in his hometown of St. Louis to preside...