Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curran and his team of three lawyers, four FBI agents and four investigative accountants pored through 80,000 bank and business documents and took 3,800 pages of testimony from 64 witnesses before a federal grand jury in Atlanta. The 180-page public version of Curran's report (a fuller version, with transcripts of testimony before the grand jury in Atlanta, remains sealed) demonstrates beyond serious challenge that no family or loan funds were siphoned into Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. More narrowly, it finds that Presidential Adman Gerald Rafshoon did not borrow from any bank...
...slightly less grand ceremony up on Garden St., President Horner, Radcliffe officials and community residents gathered to dedicate the $2.24 million Radcliffe athletic facility...
This recognition is the source of Lessing's strength. As interested as she has become in grand designs or configurations of enormous powers, she does not forget the here and now. She will still pause for moments of liquid beauty, stop to portray a sliver of the moon reflected in a dusty courtyard pool in Morocco. Shikasta invites argument. There is something unsatisfying about a vision of history that suggests humans could not, after all, help making the messes they have, that their blunders were all ordained by a small tic in the cosmos. But belief in Lessing...
Thomas's crities claim that he is overly optimistic--overawed by natural harmony. Thomas clearly believes in some grand design: he repeatedly suggests that complex systems, if left alone, will run smoothly. He carries this idea of non-intervention to extremes, however. We should cure disease, he says, because germs are "meddlers," interrupting the body's natural harmony. Thomas, in his enthusiasm for simplification, has mistaken the environmental position of these organisms. Disease-producing bacteria should certainly be eliminated but they are as intricate a part of the natural world as the body they attack...
MacDonald is one of the few crime writers since Arthur Conan Doyle to rate a regular newsletter for fans (JDM Bibliophile is published twice yearly at the Uni versity of Southern Florida); he is also one of the American authors to have won France's coveted Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. But critics and scholars have lots of time to catch up. MacDonald's mind still brims with mayhem for McGee. And there are lots of colors to go. "Let's see," says John D., sitting down to work. "There's ocher, ultramarine, peach, beige, cherry...