Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...efforts, through Frankfurter, to stop the 1927 execution of Sacco and Vanzetti: in total, more than $50,000 passed from Brandeis to Frankfurter, before the latter joined the bench in 1939, an appointee of President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, for whom he--like Brandeis for Wilson--had become an inner-circle adviser...
Bodily Harm takes such complexities further, building an entire story line on the freelancer Rennie's gap between outer confidence and inner decimation. Her fluffy but well-ordered life having suddenly exploded in a partial mastectomy, a breakup with the man she lives with and subsequently a death threat. Rennie successfully wheedles her editor into sending her to write a travel piece on St. Antoine, an obscure Caribbean island. The Caribbean sun is soothing, but the islanders are fomenting revolution; and the steadily more surreal chain of events that lands Rennie in a tropical jail teaches her only...
...missing from an obituary for a World War II tank commander signed by other Kremlin leaders. A senior West German official gave Brezhnev "a few more months," but then warned: "When I read our information, I am always amazed at how little we know for certain about the inner workings of the leadership of the world's second most important power...
...matter what the quality of activism might be, its the inner quality of those active people that will lead to real and valuable changes in society at large. Robert Slate...
...ranch is very laid back, so first names are the style. Within hours everyone knows that Marvin the doctor flunked Smokenders and needs encouragement, Carol is going through a difficult divorce and needs to be taken care of, Jessie is nearly 70 and loves exercise classes. Another Carol, an inner-city emergency-room nurse from the Midwest, cannot trust herself with a handful of change near a candy machine. The couple from Park Avenue play backgammon at 7 in the morning; the amiable rotund man is a rock musician, and the lithe woman with him is his secretary, who considerately...