Word: gem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best of the whole bunch, the brightest gem among this group of talented freshmen gathered up by Satch Sanders to insure a winning future, is high school whiz Joe Beaulieu...
More Jobs. Like a jeweler who inspects a gem for the subtlest flaw, New York Democrats quickly spot the slightest deviation from accepted liberal doctrine. For the most part, the candidates give the purists little to worry about. All five call for more jobs in the public sector, passage of the Humphrey-Hawkins full-employment bill, national health insurance, a U.S. takeover of welfare, and federal assistance to New York City-all multibillion-dollar programs that would sharply increase budget deficits or taxes or both. In heavily Jewish New York City, moreover, the candidates cannot do enough for Israel...
Henricus Bintanja, 29, a chemist, and Cornelia Hemker, 25, his girl friend, both from Amsterdam, were on a trip around the world. In Hong Kong they met a gem dealer who called himself Alain Dupuis. He invited them to his luxury hotel, sold them a blue sapphire at half the usual price, and told them to look him up in Bangkok. To their surprise, Dupuis was at the airport when they flew in, and he drove them to his apartment. They soon became violently ill. On Dec. 16 their bodies were found on the roadside 40 miles north of Bangkok...
...action with dramatic flair, twirling his cape flamboyantly, strutting around the stage and insulting everyone in sight. Edelman's spitfire pacing and clever use of props, together with Glover's easy stage presence, make this scene--in which the relatives gather to hear Dudgeon pere's will--a comic gem that sets the tone for the rest of the production...
...have a nimble intelligence, and his personal tastes run toward the mediocre-and mediocrities. His favorite poet, for example, is James Beattie, a Scot who writes romantic sentimental verse ("When in the crimson cloud of even,/ The lingering light decays,/ And Hesper on the front of Heaven/ His glistering gem displays"). He loves the theatre, but would much rather see a pantomime or farce than Shakespeare, who is not one of his favorites. He is suspicious of all innovations and innovators. To give him his due, however, he seems to recognize his intellectual shortcomings, and has been heard to complain...