Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While Diane has created a new credibility forhuman resources in terms of both image andsubstance, there is a way to go--a journey thatwill take not only steady leadership andinitiative but an ability to engage all of usalong the way," Zeckhauser wrote in her memo...
Grandpa's plight, however, is secondary to the fact that Cora is on this journey for herself. With the aid of her eccentric, truth-dispensing mother ("A clean colon does wonders for the will to live"), Cora come to the conclusion that "things did not always go as you planned, much less make a handy brand of the right kind of sense." We can only hope that this tidbit of knowledge will make her a better mother than she was grown...
...time you get to the mournful "Sur: Regreso Al Amor," the last track on La Camorra, (a tune which is a perfect illustration of just how much contemporary avant-guard American artists like Tom Waits have drawn from Piazzolla's work) you will have gone on an aural journey with one of the twentieth century's true musical geniuses...
...Diana Trilling, who knew him well, Macdonald was the "most fiery" of the New York Intellectuals, that collection of political and literary eye gougers who hovered around the journal Partisan Review in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. As Trilling wrote in her haunting recent memoir, The Beginning of the Journey, the New York Intellectuals "were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy." By now there are probably as many books about this group as there are about the assorted wits and twits of Britain's Bloomsbury circle, but they deserve the attention. Founded...
...hurried journey to break ground in 1995 and open Disney's America in 1998 will be rough every inch of the way. Opposition comes from history buffs, environmentalists, old meddlers like Ralph Nader and a lot of residents who moved to the area to get away from things like the mouse. Not the least of these is the Piedmont Environmental Council, with various Mellons and DuPonts and Jackie Onassis on the membership rolls. It has ponied up $400,000, with a goal of $1 million, for what board chairman Charles Whitehouse calls "the fight of our lives...