Word: journey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Relationship. Having assumed office only eleven weeks ago, López Portillo thought it practical to journey north to examine some of these questions with a neighboring President who has just begun to confront great issues...
Vance intends to do no actual negotiating this trip but is trying to draw detailed proposals from the two sides. Confided a close Vance aide: "He wants to press them for the limits of their positions." In addition, this week's journey gives Vance a chance, as a senior State Department official puts it, "to get to know the players involved, invite them to Washington to meet the President and impress on them our commitment to get something done." Perhaps more than anything else, this trip confirms that Arabs and Israelis alike still view Washington as the only power...
...journey of a thousand miles, said Chinese Philosopher Lao-tzu, must begin with a single step. So must a journey of millions of miles. Early in 1979 a squat and ungainly-looking craft known as a space-shuttle orbiter will open up a new age in space exploration-the era of the reusable spacecraft-by taking its first round trip around the earth and back. Last week the first of these craft stepped off on this journey into history. In a daylong trek, the ship was moved 58 kilometers (36 miles) across California's Mojave Desert from the Rockwell...
...advance from Atheneum for his next book, a biography of Peter the Great. The manuscript was due in June 1971. By then Massie was only midway through the project. When Atheneum refused his request for another $370,000 advance, the author set aside Peter, and with his wife wrote Journey, a book about their hemophiliac son, for Knopf...
...movement. The work is simply structured One group of dancers works as a unit into which three characters--"the shaman," "the first horse," and "the mother"--emerge and recede. The section motifs, derived from imporivsation directed by guest choreographer Aileen Passloff, are simple as well: huddling in a mass, journeying in a chain of linked arms, imitating birds and horses and animal-demons. Yet the logic of how one section plays off against the next is puzzling. What sort of beings are these--ancient creatures, spirits, dream images? It's easy to scoff at program notes that read...