Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exterior vestiges of his rule-statues, pictures, street signs -came tumbling down. Only in his native Georgia did his statues and pictures remain in place. In 1961, as a final act of destalinization, his body was removed from Lenin's mausoleum and put in a simple grave near the Kremlin's wall...
Last week, in an unannounced move, a life-size bust of the dictator was installed atop his grave. Curious crowds flocked to Red Square to file past the first public display of Stalin in the Kremlin since...
With those casual words to his disciples in the. year 399 B.C., Socrates went off to face the grave charges .that a disgruntled poet had brought against him: corrupting the youth of ancient Athens, impiety and practicing "religious novelties." The ensuing trial is still remembered as an epic defense of free speech and individual liberty, largely because of Plato's detailed account of it. But the trial site itself has long eluded archaeologists. Now, after nearly a century of digging in the heart of Athens, the search may finally be over...
...Penn Central case was a textbook example. After suffering grave operating losses, the railroad found itself with $152 million of commercial paper coming due this year. Unable to market new paper, or to get loans to pay off the old, the Penn Central had to declare bankruptcy...
...farce. The advantage accruing from this is that audiences will readily accept, under the guise of comedy, the kind of silly plot that they would not swallow in a serious work. But there is a disadvantage too: a comic interpretation tends to prevent the audience from realizing that grave issues are being extensively dealt with in this play. Kahn made his choice, and has proven its viability beyond a doubt...