Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Short and taciturn, Kim was previously known for his unswerving loyalty to the Park regime. While an honor student at Seoul National University in 1960, he led a bloody student uprising that helped bring about the downfall of Dictator Syngman Rhee. A year later he was recruited by the KCIA. Assigned to Washington in 1970, he quickly became the South Korean embassy's expert-in-residence on how to hook a Congressman...
Somehow the lavish trappings seemed out of tune with the guests of honor. From The Band's first album, Music from Big Pink (1968), to their eighth, Northern Lights-Southern Cross, last year, the group has combined the primal energy of roadhouse rock 'n' roll with a down-home vision of America, particularly the South. Robbie Robertson's haunting folk ballad The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down recalls a traditional Civil War song: "Virgil Cane is the name/ And I served on the Danville train/ Til Stoneman's cavalry came/ And tore...
...ended what had come to be known as "the Big One," the cruise that Buckley had dreamed of for years. He has spent much of his life in or around boats. His first, in 1939, was a 17-ft. Barracuda-class named Sweet Isolation, in honor of his father's political views. Much later there were ocean-going yachts bearing such names as The Panic (in honor of the Great Depression?) and Suzy Wong (in honor of the world's oldest laissez-faire enterprise?). Cyrano, in fact, might have been named Loophole. Buckley charters the boat for much...
...portraying Brick, a difficult, ambiguous role, Wagner chooses to be a taciturn neutral who has made a separate, soluble peace with the bottle. Yet at the end, he seems gallantly ready to break his marital fast to honor Maggie's plantation-hungry lie to Big Daddy that she is pregnant...
...honor majors reported the highest percentages of thesis writers. The History and Literature and History of Science committees reported all of their seniors planned theses. The Social Studies committee reported over 75 per cent of the senior concentrators had proposed theses...