Word: heir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deny-a public report that he intends to retire when his current term ends. Blocking the path of both Hays and Burton, however, is Massachusetts' Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, the House majority leader. O'Neill has no intention of letting either challenger edge him out as heir apparent to Albert...
...agents can claim credit for some sensational exposes. Notably, they brought to light the letter written by Mao Tse-tung to his wife in the midst of the Cultural Revolution in which Mao complained about the personality cult that was being built around him and sharply criticized his then heir-apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao...
...progressive conservative Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. West Germany's Willy Brandt resigned in the shadow of a spy scandal, and was succeeded by moderate Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt. Italy lost its 31st government of the postwar era. Portugal deposed Marcello Caetano, the dictatorial heir of Salazar. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie was stripped of hereditary power going back 2,500 years and trundled off to house arrest by a military junta...
...eclectic, adventurous choice of plays soon put Long Wharf into the forefront of regional theaters. Brown himself emerged as a likely heir to the late Tyrone Guthrie, the swashbuckling repertory advocate who in 1958 moved to Minneapolis and fired up the U.S. regional-theater movement. Apart from the obligatory classics, Brown digs out such unlikely playwrights as D.H. Lawrence (The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd) and Maxim Gorky (Country People). "Gorky's plays are particularly interesting today. His people are activists, revolutionaries...
...Sophoclean tragedy, part historical drama, part revolutionary tract, Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is a truly original epic that brings old Russia startlingly to life. It is the semihistorical tale of a Kremlin politician who attains his country's throne by murdering the czar's only heir, the boy Dimitri. Filled with remorse, fear and delusion, Boris dies a crazed death as a people's revolution, led by a false Dimitri, prepares to overthrow him. Powerfully scored, Boris has no peers in Russia and precious few in all of opera. Yet for close to a century...