Word: founds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After this unpromising beginning, the American envoys found that their motorcade had to run a gauntlet of 20,000 furious protesters who had gathered along the route into the capital. Many were armed with placards reading FREE CHINA WILL NEVER FALL and CARTER SELLS PEANUTS AND FRIENDS. The Americans were trapped in their cars for over an hour while demonstrators pelted the caravan with eggs, mud, sand and paint. Christopher and Leonard Unger, now the ex-Ambassador to Taipei, suffered minor cuts from glass shattered...
...Employment Policy," though Sawhill has not yet been able to make an official change from the rather sexist old name). A native of Washington, D.C., Sawhill received her economics doctorate from New York University, and remembers that she was often the only woman in her classes. She soon found that the best opportunity for advancement was in Government; and, since the late '60s, she has moved from one federal agency to another. Married to John Sawhill, onetime energy czar under President Nixon and now president of her alma mater, N.Y.U., she is the mother...
...sensibility of the architecture school, a trait also found in Robert Stern's work. Stern's remarkable house in Armonk, N.Y., is like an assembly of delicately related fragments. One seems to be looking at a stage set that represents a villa. Instead of coalescing in the strong cubical masses of Italian country architecture, the walls are like screens, separated, undulating, shearing away from one another; the effect resembles painting as much as it does building, in its dematerialization and purity of effect-down to the smallest detail of a skylight...
...last distinguished academic to pack so much brimstone in his scholarship was Lasch himself in Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged (1977). The Culture of Narcissism shares that book's formidable intellectual grasp and the kind of moral conviction rarely found in contemporary value-neutral history and sociology. But the book also shares the early work's redundancy and disjointedness...
...fact too dreary and anonymous for such a colorful description. His father was a city gardener who had long since given up his manhood; his mother was a tyrant who raged through a house that smelled of grease and damp. Young Joe, the eldest of four, tried acting and found his haven in the fantasy of the theater. At 18, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London...