Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy is markedly different from covering that of Nixon and Ford. "There is an openness within the Carter Administration," says Ogden. "This means that officials you deal with now are seeing information they never received under Kissinger. In those days, many officials resorted to asking reporters what they had heard from Kissinger." Not that this particular question has gone out of style-as shown in Hugh Sidey's column on the former Secretary of State, who is in demand by foreign statesmen, not to mention reporters...
...hasten his return to power. After all, they argued, posters that had appeared in Peking and Canton last spring announcing Teng's appointment as Premier had proved to be false alarms. The day after the disappearance of the first poster, however, several similar ones were sighted. Foreign residents heard the sound of cymbals and drums reverberating through the capital, suggesting that demonstrations were being rehearsed in preparation for celebrations of Teng's comeback...
...Siegen in 1576-the year Titian died in Venice.) He was born poor and in exile from Antwerp; he would die with immense wealth, with kings demanding daily bulletins on his health. By modern standards, of course, Rubens' public was quite small. The number of people who had heard of Rubens' work when he was alive would probably not make up a week's attendance at the Metropolitan Museum. But they were the people who owned and ran Europe. Few of Rubens' paintings, except the altarpieces-the cherub-borne Madonnas rising into the infinite blue gauze...
...shouldn't young Jews, or older Jews for that matter, become Christians if they think this is the way to go? Why shouldn't the Establishment Protestants become Orthodox Jews if they want to? Freedom lives on a two-way street, and the last I heard we still had religious freedom in this country...
Before he came here, Dinnerstein said, he hadn't been sure about applying to Harvard for college. "I'd sort of heard that Harvard was a really over-rated school, but the classes have been good and I've liked it a lot," he said. He'll probably try to set up an interview with the undergraduate Admissions Office before he leaves Cambridge this summer...