Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Battle's journey to the top was circuitous. On a scholarship at the University of Cincinnati, she enrolled as a music-education major instead of as a performer because she feared being rejected in auditions and desired the security that would come with teaching...
English Author Jonathan Raban, 43, has earned a reputation as a diverting guide for armchair tourists. His best-known travel books are Arabia: A Journey Through the Labyrinth (1979) and Old Glory (1981), a Huckleberry Finnish, updated account of a journey down the Mississippi. With much of the world left to explore and write about, Raban has elected to make a voyage of a different and distinctly perilous kind. Foreign Land is his first novel...
Evidently fearing the kind of daring U.S. air interception that the Achille Lauro hijackers encountered, Arafat made the 500-mile journey from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, to Amman by automobile. Seven top P.L.O. leaders accompanied him to the palace for the 2 1/2-hour meeting with Hussein. The ! next day Arafat held a three-hour session with Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid al Rifa'i. Later, however, the P.L.O. leader claimed that Hussein was not upset in their meeting. Said he: "Jordanian-Palestinian relations are too strong to be affected by an event here or an event there...
...young Baldwin took a while, however, to transcend his own confused hostility toward his oppressers. This collection makes a valuable attempt to resurrect some of of his earlier material, the raw data out of which his humanitarian theory would be constructed. In these early pieces, especially "Journey To Atlanta" of 1948, we see a brilliant but young Baldwin trying to grapple with the immensely complex problems of race relations. He claims justly that, "The Progressive Party...has not made any great impression in Harlem," but he has nothing to suggest beyond that failure. He weighs the consequences of the overt...
...when it should. This caravan was a celebration for tax reform, with bands and balloons and healthy Americans cheering. The President had to wear two faces that day, one for his happy crowds in public, another for his private moments as terrorism avenger. At every critical point during the journey Reagan would turn from blaring politics to a whispered question: "Have we found them...