Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Late last week, as plans were laid for the ceremonial funeral in Westminster Abbey this Wednesday, the bodies of Mountbatten, his grandson and the Dowager Lady Brabourne were flown to Broadlands, his Hampshire estate, to lie in state in the white porticoed mansion. Britons would not soon forget that the distinguished old sea dog, when asked not long ago if he feared an I.R.A. attack, gruffly replied: "What would they want with an old man like me?" A man of civility and simplicity who tried to build bridges instead of exploiting divisions, he could not conceive that his death could...
While courting their country's Protestants, China's Communist authorities have not neglected the much larger Roman Catholic community. Late in July the Catholic Patriotic Association, China's "autonomous" Catholic church, which was forced to break with Rome in 1957, elected a new "bishop," Michael Fu Tieshan, 47. The appointment was the first since the death of Yao Guangyu in 1964. Chinese Catholics have been cut off from Rome and from the reforms of the Second Vatican Council. (At the only legally open Catholic church, in Peking, the Mass is still said in Latin.) The Vatican...
DIVORCED. Luci Johnson Nugent, 32, younger daughter of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson; and Pat Nugent, 36, partner in the firm that publishes the Texas State Directory; after 13 years of marriage, four children; in Austin...
Fame has a way of ruining a writer's reputation. Take the case of Kurt Vonnegut, who became a cult figure in the late '60s after enduring years of hard-earned obscurity. A growing army of high school and college readers began proclaiming him a deep thinker, at about the same time that critics started cuffing him for being a shallow artist. Both judgments were wrong. Vonnegut has never written a thought that could not occur to a sporadically meditative teenager, nor has he pretended to; those who are impressed by the profundity of a shrug...
Perhaps it is part of the famous narcissism of the '70s, but Americans forget how violent and depraved other cultures have been. There is something hilarious, in a grisly way, about George Augustus Selwyn, the late 18th century London society figure and algolagnic whose morbid interest in human suffering sent him scurrying over to Paris whenever a good execution was scheduled. Americans may have displayed an unwholesome interest in the departure of Gary Gilmore two years ago, but that was nothing compared with the macabre fascinations, the public hangings, the Schadenfreud of other centuries. In the 17th century, Londoners...