Word: ivor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ivor Richard, Britain's representative to the U.N., stated at the time that to "stigmatize Zionism with racism was to confuse racism and racial discrimination with nationalism". For Castro, to stigmatize Israel with Genocide is to confuse a continuing political struggle with the organized mass murder of the Palestinian people...
...DIED. Ivor Armstrong Richards, 86, British scholar, language reformer and immensely influential literary critic; in Cambridge, England. "The guru of Cambridge" in the 1920s laid down the principles of what became known as the New Criticism, an attempt to apply scientific method to analysis of literary values. Teaching briefly in China and, from 1939, for more than two decades at Harvard, he turned his attention to primary education and became the world's leading proselyte of Basic English, a boiled-down, 850-word version of the language that he considered easily learnable by foreigners...
...Mustafa Algan Bey, ostensibly Turkey's premier dealer in precious carpets. Their adventures take them in and out of jail cells, dungeons, buses, trucks and steamers and across the length and breadth of Poppyland. About the only peril they do not indulge in is erotica. However, Scotsman Ivor Drummond's dippy novel could also serve as a tourist's guide to Turkey. Caveat from Jenny re Istanbul; "Too many dead cats and too many live cockroaches...
Vacations are also a big-budget item. "Before we had a house and baby we spent all our money on trips," says Ivor Bloom, 29, manager of Crimson Travel Service's Boston office. Bloom's wife also works in the travel business. "We are fairly typical," he notes. "If a couple has not made the major purchase of a house, they put their extra income into seeing the world." When the new elite travels, it is to stay longer at more distant, expensive and exotic destinations. Young two-earner couples prefer to pay more for guaranteed rather than...
...mention the usual clutch of Whitneys and Vanderbilts. Around the barns of the great breeding farms-Spendthrift, Claiborne and the like-and under the canopies covering the caviar at auction-weekend parties, the talk was peppered with the names of sires: What A Pleasure, Round Table, Sir Ivor, Northern Dancer. A casual comment about one filly brought the quick question: "How was she bred, ma'am?" The equally quick answer: "By Secretariat out of Crimson Saint by Crimson Satan, seven wins in eleven starts for over $90,000." That yearling was gaveled off at Keeneland a few days later...