Word: grandly
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...saying this, I do not mean to conjure up some grand utopian scheme of world government. The political differences are too great, the economic interests too divergent to make such visions realistic. Instead, it seems wiser to begin by making more determined efforts to build durable forms of cooperation for particular problems, however, where there are strong mutual interests in doing so. Such structures have served us well in the past. In the field armaments, the nonproliferation treaty has held the rate of nuclear diffusion to one-third the level that President Kennedy predicted in 1961. In commerce, the General...
Perhaps the greatest advantage to the defense is the "Article 32" pretrial hearing now under way in both cases. A grand jury proceeding, the nearest civilian equivalent, hears the prosecution's case without the defendant or his lawyers present. At Article 32 hearings, the defense is not only present but can challenge witnesses and call its own. Even William Kunstler, the activist attorney representing Lonetree, concedes that "at the end of Article 32, the defense knows almost everything that the prosecution...
...KwaZulu homeland, who is often described as the country's leading black moderate. He declared, "I am totally appalled at what happened, and I see a long, hard, costly political grind ahead." Oliver Tambo, head of the African National Congress, from his headquarters in Zambia, called the election a "grand show of racism" and added, "There is no alternative to armed struggle...
...White House press corps's grand old man, U.P.I.'s late Merriman Smith, used to regale the young scribes with stories of his days on Franklin Roosevelt's train from Washington to Hyde Park, N.Y., how it would stop on a New Jersey siding for a rendezvous with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd. Smith never wrote the story, never had any final facts...
...Eyes (Doubleday; $17.95), Critic David Thomson puts it this way: Beatty's ambition now is "to see if he can be only a star -- not a star kept alight by regular work and appearance, but a star who exists according to the self-perpetuating mechanics of stardom." In this grand scheme, his notoriety as a womanizer is of small consequence -- a titillating false trail to keep the gossip press yapping. So is acting, at least in the conventional sense of the word. Performing is something that Beatty, whom Thomson calls a man "doubting and growing querulous . . . at the advisability...