Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long journey with the treaty winds down, Challinor believes that the message from that document and from the men who devised it has an eerie resonance at a time when we have grown weary of the threat of war, of arming and then arming more. "A recognition of the talents necessary for the work of peace and a rightful regard for the skills of international diplomacy seem a most appropriate commemoration of the Treaty of Paris," she says...
...especially contempo rary, a striking instance of the modern temper born in trenches sever al wars ago. In his unobtrusive manner, Sassoon was one of the makers of that temper. Thanks to Fussell's adroit editing, readers can once again accompany him on the author's Long Journey and, in the process, discover much about that worthy hunter of foxes and truth, and far more about their own time...
Pastels and magic are the main components of The Wreck of the Zephyr, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95). A small sailboat sits wrecked at the edge of a cliff. How did it get up there? An old salt describes the journey to a place where boats glide above the water like seagulls. Van Allsburg's dark, hypnotic illustrations follow the craft through massed clouds and starry evenings, until it crashes to earth with the surprise of a joke and the power of a folk tale...
...industrial park. While pursuing that lead the authorities agreed to turn over the ransom. They stuffed an estimated $10 million into postal bags and placed the cash inside a van. Then a lone driver, communicating with the kidnapers over a walkie-talkie, followed their directions through a 120-mile journey that zigzagged across the country. Finally, the eagle told the hare to drop the money bags from an overpass down to a waiting...
...press had been advised to expect a lot of ceremony and little of substance on the Far East journey; no tense confrontation with foreign leaders of the kind Reagan dislikes. Fair enough. Good-will trips are valuable, and Reagan is good at them. But why then should Reagan on his return to the U.S. try to make more of it by proclaiming that as a result, the prospects of "peace and prosperity are better today than a week ago"? Well, for one reason, because his advisers thought there may have been too much pictorial emphasis on the military in Korea...