Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flaw in style is compounded, in Barber's view, by a major character deficiency - Nixon's tendency to lapse into unguarded behavior after periods of great stress. Nixon himself as much as acknowledged the phenomenon in his Six Crises, and later went on to explode bitterly at the press following his 1962 California gubernatorial defeat. Barber even provides a scenario for a future situation brought on by Nixon's "crisis syndrome": the Administration is defeated on a key issue, Nixon losing face or power in the bargain; at a press conference, he is badgered about...
...says, "the city noises are assaulting our sanity." Studies show that children (and presumably adults as well) in Sāo Paulo have already lost some acuity of hearing, because as noise increases the ability to hear decreases. Experienced travelers to Rio book rooms in the back of the great hotels that line Copacabana Beach, forsaking the glorious views over the harbor in order to be as far as possible from the amplified autos snarling along Avenida Atlantica. Says Aimone Camardella, director of industrial physics at the National Institute of Technology: "Noise is increasing the number of neurotics...
...against the boyars, who succeeded in murdering him in 1174, his majestic monument stood, only to be destroyed by fire a few years later. In restoring it, his brother added four additional domes, creating the distinctive five-dome arrangement that was widely copied throughout Russia. In 1475, Ivan the Great found the white stone structure so beautiful that he instructed the Italian architect Fiorovanti to use it as the model for Moscow's Cathedral of the Assumption in the Kremlin...
...richest trading towns of medieval Russia, exchanging its honey, furs, wheat and beeswax for Scandinavian amber, Arab coins and Volga pottery. Today, it is a favorite stop for Sputnik International Youth Groups, who stay in the famed Red Chamber that once housed visiting czars, including Peter the Great. Its sprawling kremlin is, next to Moscow's own, the most spectacular in Russia. Forty years abuilding, the Rostov Kremlin incorporates the Metropolitan's residence, churches, service buildings and princely quarters all into one grand architectural ensemble of striking dimension and originality...
...animals as he would to people. Animals seem to find it endearing too. Like the bear who cheerfully followed Durrell home one afternoon. Gerry's long-suffering mother was sure that he could explain the attachment. "Explain?" his brother Larry exploded. "Explain? How do you explain a bloody great bear in the drawing-room?" If you happen to be Durrell, you can explain-enchantingly...