Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press described the sudden jaunt to Warsaw last week of a high-level Soviet delegation headed by hawkish Politburo Ideologue Mikhail Suslov. But friendship, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For hard-lining Polish Politburo Members Stefan Olszowski and Tadeusz Grabski, who were on hand to greet their Soviet comrades at Okecie Airport, the handshakes must have felt fraternal indeed. For Warsaw's Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, who led the delegation, and who has shown a tenacious commitment to reform, Suslov's arrival may have seemed more like a Siberian blizzard...
...institution she takes on in this, the sixth Cross book. The Harvard that appears in Death in a Tenured Position is big, smug, successful and emphatically male--a sort of hybrid of the oracle of Delphi and the balcony men's room at the Boston Garden. Its entrenched inhabitants greet change with affection usually reserved for sneezing leprosy victims...
...their individual solo and teaching careers, Cohen, Greenhouse and Pressler remain the warmest and most personable of men. After their Harvard appearances, which are sponsored by the Winthrop House Music Society, the trio often holds a reception for students at Winthrop. Usually the liveliest people there, they sip coffee, greet fans, and chat with students as naturally and with as much real interest as they demonstrate on stage. As Tom Johnson, director of the Winthrop concert series, puts it, "These guys are incredible! They catch a plane at seven in the morning, travel across country, rehearse, play a concert...
When the Pope arrived in Tokyo, there were no military bands or honor guards to greet him. But John Paul dazzled many with his well-rehearsed and easily understood Japanese, his grasp of Asian history and his untiring willingness to belt out Polish folk songs on a handheld mike and dance with kindergartners at a Tokyo youth rally. In Nagasaki, the historic center of Japanese Catholicism, the crowds were larger: 47,000 stoically endured a freak February blizzard to attend an outdoor Mass. Eventually more than 300 people had to be taken to first-aid stations because they were suffering...
...origins, tempered and improved by Floridian and Caribbean overtones and directed by his own laid-back outlook on life. Even today, although "Margaritaville," probably his biggest hit to date, has been transformed by "The 101 Strings" into dentist-office muzak, few people are familiar with Buffett's music. Fans greet each other with the same excitement that marks a meeting of, well...Harvard alumni. It's a shared experience that links otherwise alien souls...