Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pretending that congressional concerns were the real reason: though most Filipinos are still pro-American, many of them were opposed to the trip on the grounds that it would show U.S. support for Marcos at a critical time. There was also a personal factor: Nancy Reagan firmly opposed the journey because of fears for her husband's safety. For Marcos and his influential wife Imelda, the cancellation came as a blow, but most Filipinos were clearly delighted with Reagan's decision...
Chun, whose visit to Rangoon was the first stop in an 18-day swing through six Asian and Pacific nations, was three minutes away from the memorial when the bomb, apparently meant for him, went off. His motorcade immediately turned away; soon afterward, the President cut short the journey and flew back to Seoul with his wife. Cabinet members who had not accompanied the President on the tour quickly convened in the South Korean capital, ordered the country's armed forces and police on special alert, and set up a task force of vice ministers to deal with...
...fated journey last week was also designed to burnish Chun's image at home; since seizing power after the 1979 assassination of Park Chung Hee and winning the election of 1980, the President has yet to emerge as a truly popular leader. The explosion in Rangoon, no matter who was responsible, was bound to bring South Koreans closer together-if only, once again, in anguish...
Maybe so, but for now the industry faces a rough passage through perilous times. With dozens of companies trying to make the journey, the casualties are bound to be heavy...
...double biography, The Brothers Singer, British Writer Clive Sinclair traces that journey back to Poland, where Singer was born in 1904. If a writer's capital is his childhood, Singer is a literary Rothschild, still retailing anecdotes he heard swirling through the streets of Bilgoray and Lublin. Many stories contain transsexual themes-oblique references to his mother and father; Isaac's older brother, Novelist Israel Joshua Singer (The Brothers Ashkenazi), called his parents' marriage "a tragedy, due to the fact that fate transposed genders in heaven." His father, a rabbi, was "soft," his wife was "sharp...