Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a week, the 576 passengers aboard the Soviet cruise liner Maxim % Gorky had been sailing through the North Atlantic near Iceland, marveling at the dramatic Arctic scenery. Just after midnight on their ninth day out -- it was foggy, yet still light in the land of the midnight sun -- the 25,000-ton ship struck a partly submerged ice floe. Three gashes opened in the starboard forward hull below the waterline, one of them 18 ft. long...
...conversations so far in Canada, Iceland, Britain, West Germany, Denmark and Norway have been "warm, personal and professional," said the U.S. official, who requested anonymity. "It's going very, very well...
...Literary history has tended to turn its back on what was happening outside of Iceland in the Middle Ages," he says...
...Japan and into the Himalayas. Iyer's trips have provided grist for a book in progress and recent TIME stories on the Dalai Lama and Tokyo Disneyland. "I try to catch the inner stirrings of a country," he says. "Over the past year I observed the summer solstice in Iceland, attended the Wimbledon tennis matches and went to Cuba for Carnaval." Iyer, 31, can focus his attention on something as small as the comma, the subject of his essay in this week's magazine, or as vast as China, which fills a chapter of his just published travel book, Video...
Though the dissertation was mildly contemptuous of peasant piety, Raisa professes tolerance for religion. "I am an atheist," she told a church group in Iceland in 1986. "But I know the church, and I respect all faiths. It is, after all, a personal matter." She does not necessarily reject spirituality; that would mean brushing aside much of Russian literature and art, subjects that are dear to her. After her husband's rise to power, she was said to have been instrumental in the rehabilitation of Nikolai Gumilyov, a poet executed by the Bolsheviks in 1921. Gumilyov's verses shimmer with...