Word: josiah
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Along the way Cambridge produced its share of notables: botanist Louis Agassiz, jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, actor Walter Brennan, cartoonist Al Capp and camera mogul Edwin Land. "Even Josiah Bartlett, the man who wrote Bartlett's Quotations, lived here," Dickerson said...
Machiavelli said that a strong leader is needed at the birth of an organization or at a time of severe crisis. "In the U.S. now," says Josiah Bunting, "there are proportionately as many Hamiltons, Jeffersons and Franklins as in 1776. But there is nothing which calls their kinds of talents and energies automatically into the public sector. They have available chairs of classics at Brown University and directorships at Gulf Oil, what have you." A Southern Governor agrees: "It was probably much easier for David Rockefeller to be chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, a powerful position in which...
Since the election, Muzorewa has been involved in some bitter internecine quarreling with his black colleagues. Last week, however, the bishop made a shrewd appeal for national unity: he let it be known that he had selected Josiah Gumede as the country's first black President and ceremonial head of state. Gumede, a civil servant in London during the days of the Central African Federation (1953-63), resigned from his government post after Prime Minister Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence for Rhodesia in 1965; a grateful British government promptly awarded Gumede an M.B.E. Bishop Muzorewa...
There have been other admirable Viet Nam books recently: Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Larry Heinemann's Close Quarters and Frederick Downs' The Killing Zone. Josiah Bunting, a novelist (The Lionheads) and former Army officer who served in Viet Nam and is now president of Virginia's Hampden-Sydney College, points out an anomaly of Viet Nam. "The Norman Mailers and William Styrons and all those guys stayed at Harvard for this war. The real literary genius never went." Nonetheless, Bunting expects that "within the next three or five years, there will...
...Josiah Chinamano, vice-president of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), said in an interview yesterday that Robert Mugabe, leader of the Zimbabwe African Nationalist Union (ZANU), assured him three months ago that he is committed to the unified Patriotic Front...