Word: farflung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first glance, the black-and-white poster at Peking University hardly looked like a call for revolutionary change. Yet under the heading A DIRECTORY OF FAMOUS CHINESE, the broadside traced with devastating clarity the network of family ties that links China's top leaders and perpetuates their power. That farflung network, along with the rampant corruption that Chinese citizens are forced to endure each day, has gone far to galvanize the outcry for democracy in China's streets...
...film's scorn for the Turks. Many of the film's Turkish parts are played by Greeks, and the credits list Olympia Airways in the acknowledgements. Everyone knows about the antipathies between these two peoples. Of course, the Europeans never liked the Turks either, since they controlled access to farflung Asia. But while historical circumstance is some excuse for this biased depiction, Pascali's Island does not provide compelling support...
...mercurial Libyan also called on Irish youth to "fight to liberate" Northern Ireland. Infuriated, the Dublin government instructed its diplomats to protest Gaddafi's statement to the Libyan People's Bureau in Rome. Meanwhile, in farflung Chicago, four members of a street gang that espouses a bizarre brand of Islam were indicted on charges of conspiring with Libyan officials to launch terrorist attacks inside...
...with the Soviet Union and 16 sympathizers declining for reasons of either security or insecurity and two others demurring independently. Libya withdrew on the eve of the Games after two of its journalists, alleged to be terrorists, were refused U.S. entry. About 8,000 athletes are off on a farflung, 16-day spree splashed with hot pastel colors that might have been selected for their political insignificance or because this Olympiad is privately financed and they happened to be the shades on sale...
That penchant for the big picture and the balanced upbeat view reflects the style of Council Chairman Kerr, who taught industrial relations before becoming president of the University of California in 1958. It became the country's most prominent model of what Kerr called a "multiversity," a farflung, state-supported educational emporium that served society in all sorts of ways. While some students were majoring in winemaking or arts and crafts, others were pursuing advanced degrees in psychotherapy or plasma physics. During Kerr's reign, the University of California grew from two to eight main campuses, with...