Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Frank Sinatra, 56, retired his voice from public performance in 1971, he said that every thinking man needs a fallow period. But after a suitable period of lying fallow, the Chairman of the Board woke up one morning and found that he had "been replaced as the nation'...
1-The Joy of Sex, Comfort (2) 2-Alistair Cooke's America, Cooke (1) 3-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller 4-The Best of Life, edited by David E. Scherman (5) 5-The Imperial Presidency, Schesinger 6-How to Be Your Own Best Friend...
Equally inflammatory, from the Soviet point of view, are Solzhenitsyn's meticulously documented comparisons of Czarist authoritarianism and Communist dictatorship. In terms of numbers of arrests and executions, and lengths of prison terms, he declares, the Soviet regime has exceeded imperial rule by factors ranging from 10 to 1...
The Dutch abstractionist Piet Mondrian moved to New York City in 1940 and died there four years later. He was the greatest of all the European artists who, displaced by war, settled in America and began the ferment that culminated in what Art Historian Irving Sandler, in an infelicitously imperial...
A case in point: the violently anti-Israeli opinions of Jesuit Radical Daniel Berrigan, once imprisoned foe of the Viet Nam War, longtime champion of the underdog, and soul brother of the late Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, American Judaism's most poetic Zionist. At a meeting of the Association...