Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfume, caviar-for Christmas. However, we are determined to track down huge amounts of money which went to Washington, and we have asked the FBI to help us. Some $19 million was spent by the ex-Shah's secret police [SAVAK] in 1976-77. The FBI wants to know whether the Alien Registration Act has been violated, and we want to know what SAVAK Chief Mansur Rafizadeh did with $8 million in 1976. There's no record of how it was spent or who got it. Another $11 million was transferred to the embassy during the imperial couple...
...good a definition of the craft as any, and if anybody should know, it is George Burns, who started performing in 1903, not long after Teddy Roosevelt became President. "Nobody," he insists, "is older than I am." Groucho, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Fanny Brice, Amos and Andy, and Gracie Allen, George's partner and wife for four decades: almost all the great comedians of the '30s and '40s are gone. But Burns, who is 83, is still around to enjoy the applause. His first dramatic role, in The Sunshine Boys, won him an Academy Award, and that...
...Start program. Before such programs existed, says TMC Executive Director Oscar Villarreal, "the infant children had no one to care for them when they were sick. They were left with ten-or twelve-year-old siblings who could not teach them very well because they just didn't know much...
...from Cambridge. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the complex includes two theaters, a museum, an eight-story archive, and-to take advantage of the site's sweeping view of Boston harbor-a glass pavilion. "The location," says Library Director Daniel Fenn, "is a smash." Cambridge, we hardly know...
...will say that such a dream is arrogant, ambitious, unoriginal, and of course it is ... I too will write a book. Another book. I know that our age has been propelled, blackmailed into becoming the Age of Explanation. I feel that literate people have almost explained themselves away. I use the word 'literate' as a fact, not a judgment. At first, you remember, Alice Thumb, it was our anxiety, our unease which was explained away, but in the process, we ourselves have been disappearing. The efficiency of our explanations is like that of the insecticide which reduces...