Word: ende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the previously set-up formula, activist Hoffman's self-induced end should have sounded the death knell for the generations' hopes. The beacon of idealism, the one who, unlike so many others, never sold out, had admited defeat and in a fit of exhaustion slid into death's enticing embrace...
...although even the novel's end is colored in Barker's terms, Bernays does not allow him to satisfy all of his desires. But the teacher learns little from his lesson--Barker is content to remain a slime, barely trying to prove himself otherwise...
...Sharpeville Six, sentenced to hang for their part in the murder of a black township official, obtained commutations of their death sentences. Perhaps the biggest advance is the recent working paper of a government-appoint ed law commission, which has proposed a South African Bill of Rights, an end to apartheid laws and an equal vote for all South Africans...
...measure of a leader's courage, which in the end can raise a President to greatness or terminate his political life, is far more complicated than it used to be. "Most of the Presidents we eulogize are those who acted dramatically in crisis," said Roger Porter last week. Porter is a Harvard scholar on the presidency, on loan as the President's economic-and-domestic- policy adviser, thus being granted a rare chance to witness the chemistry of leadership. "We have tended to equate success and action. We sometimes confuse action with accomplishment. A President is instantly under enormous pressure...
...Greek Cypriot government that the works had been stripped from a small village church on the Turkish- controlled side of the island and illegally offered for sale on the international art market. Said Archbishop Chrysostomos of the Cyprus Church: "This just decision by the American court will help end the illegal marketing of looted archaeological items worldwide." Museum directors expect the decision to set an important precedent for regulating the antiquities market...