Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, as the secretary of the Swedish Academy, Karl Ragnar Gierow, stood outside the academy's headquarters in Stockholm's old bourse to name the 67th Nobel laureate, he told the gathered newsmen: "On television the other night [a Swedish author] remarked it would be better to give all the prizes to ambassadors so there won't be any problem in handing over the prize. Today we are doing as he suggested. The 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto." After a theatrical pause, while most of his audience...
Popkin and Chomsky have also protested that their interrogation before the grand jury endangers academic freedom. Twenty-one Harvard professors, including Edwin O. Reischauer. John Kenneth Galbraith, John K. Fairbank, Karl W. Deutsch, James Q. Wilson, Samuel P. Huntington, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Doris Kearns, have signed affidavits supporting Popkin's argument...
Most of the early advocates of the indeterminate sentence, like other reformers of the period, were men of pronounced prejudices. They prefered Christ to anti-Christ, and for that matter, Christ to Buddha. They found industrial pollution more excusable than prostitution. Most importantly, they prefered Adam Smith to Karl Marx, and believed that ultimately the criminal bore personal guilt for his crimes...
...Washington this week. John Connally, the tough but still charming Texan, will be there as the chief attraction, if one can put it that way. So will assorted treasury chiefs, finance ministers and central bankers-France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Germany's Karl Schiller, Italy's Guido Carli. Like their predecessors at Bretton Woods, these men face the necessity of crafting a new system to finance global trade, tourism and investment. They surely will not finish that herculean job by the time the annual meeting of the 118-country International Monetary Fund ends...
...times, many of the new men became unusually active in local communities. Hospitable party givers, they could also be seen frequently having a drink with an M.P. or a meal with an industrialist or businessman at an expense-account restaurant. In the elegant North London suburb of Highgate (where Karl Marx's grave is located), Soviet trade-mission officials took a handsome modern office building of glass and concrete, set up house in luxurious apartments that rent for $168 to $240 a week, and went out of their way to behave like good neighbors. Their sheer numbers led some...