Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Every December the Gramercy Neighborhood Associates hoist a tree on the south side of the park. A party is thrown for all the neighborhood at the National Arts Club. Clothing and toys are collected for the poor. Apartment house entrances are decorated with wreaths and lights. On Christmas Eve, the residents come together in the park around the tree, while a man with a portable organ leads them in bellowing carols against the night...
Alfonsin will need all the support he can muster to extricate Argentina from its political and economic quagmire. On the eve of the inauguration, after 2½ years of self-imposed exile in Spain, where she had fled following a ruinous term as President, Juan Perón's widow Isabel flew into Buenos Aires as Alfonsin's guest at the ceremony. Whether Isabelita plans to lead a regrouping of the ragged Peronist ranks is unclear, but if she assumes a major role in the party, it could spark bitter feuding between her supporters and foes...
Four centuries are represented in The Random House Book of Poetry for Children, selected by Jack Prelutsky ($13.95). William Blake is here; so are Shakespeare and Charles Lamb, alongside such modern versifiers as Spike Milligan, Eve Merriam and Karla Kuskin. A zoo of creatures passes in review, from pachyderms ("I think they had no pattern/ When they cut out the elephant's skin;/ Some places it needs letting out,/ And others, taking in") to birds ("The song of canaries/ Never var ies,/ And when they're moulting/ They're pretty revolting"). Anthologist Prelutsky gives equal time...
...vanished but not vanquished world," says Roman Vishniac of the German and Eastern European Jewish communities he photographed on the eve of the Holocaust. In A Vanished World (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 180 pages; $49.95) a doomed people are brought to life. The faces are unforgettable; wide-eyed children in Hebrew schools, a wise elder peering over his glasses, a handsome singer in a Hasidic choir. Many of the pictures reflect anti-Semitic repression in pre-war Poland and Germany. In one photo, Vishniac's little daughter is posed beside a Berlin shop window displaying a demoniac device that purported...
While both men reserved the right to disavow the deal later, only one of them was operating completely on his own. That was Nitze. Kvitsinsky had been in contact with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko about their discussions on the eve of what later became famous as "the walk in the woods." At the end of the talk, Kvitsinsky said he was not sure he would find the Kremlin receptive to the package. He told Nitze he would let him know through a colleague at the Soviet embassy in Washington, one of Ambassador...