Word: iiis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central role is that of Prospero, the play's Grand Puppeteer, which was highly suited to the talents of Richard Burbage, for whom Shakespeare fashioned his Richard III, Hamlet, Othello, Lear and other major parts. The role is more than three times as long as any other in the play, and the character has been thought to stand for God, Jesus, Fate, Justice, Art, Intellect, the Ideal Ruler, the Colonizer, the Grumpy Old Man, and a host of other things including Shakespeare himself...
...also attracted national attention because of her impressive performance during Watergate, is now on the lecture circuit. James Abourezk chose not to run for re-election as a South Dakota Senator and is a lawyer who represents, among other clients, the new government of Iran. Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III will retire next year; he talks vaguely of campaigning for the presidency as an independent, hoping to sweep away the "minutiae" that hog-tie Washington...
...Jerry Brown, West Virginia's Jay Rockefeller, Illinois' James Thompson and Delaware's Pierre DuPont IV. There was also a spate of new Senators: New Jersey's Bill Bradley, Michigan's Don Riegle, Missouri's John Danforth, Pennsylvania's John Heinz III, Indiana's Richard Lugar and Maryland's Paul Sarbanes. Congressman Andrew Young was made U.N. ambassador by President Carter, who also named two others from the 200 to his original Cabinet: former Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus Interior Secretary and Joseph Califano HEW Secretary, a job he was fired from...
...bombing strikes that left 20 dead and 60 wounded, the U.S. condemned the raids with unusual severity. The State Department pointedly noted that victims of the weekend attacks had included women and children. "Roads were filled with motorists returning from excursions to the beach and mountains," Spokesman Hodding Carter III declared, "and I would just say in the strongest terms that such raids must be stopped...
Adlai Stevenson III, Illinois Senator: "Some people have an instinctive grasp of power. Winston Churchill didn't need zero-based budgeting...