Word: latter-day
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...last hours of the Reagans were crammed with thunderous tributes and then dozens of tiny, human gestures of thanks. The Notre Dame football team, voted the national champion, came by and left Reagan the blue-and-gold letter sweater of George Gipp. Suddenly make-believe was real; the latter-day Gipper finally had the authentic article, and he clung to it reverently as the team departed. The apt gift touched him almost as much as anything that happened in the parting...
Perhaps one of her graduates will become a latter-day Careme, the incomparable 19th century pastry chef to Talleyrand. All it would take is the right proportions of diligence, talent, eggs, butter and sugar, and perhaps a short prayer to St. Honore, patron saint of bakers...
...ever taken the number 69 bus as far as it goes, you know that all of Cambridge is not like Harvard Square. While the Square may be a haven for academics and latter-day hippies, other parts of Cambridge offer shelter to ethnic groups and industry...
...street near the American ambassador's residence, where Ronald Reagan will be staying, has been repaved. Buildings opposite the Kremlin have been repainted in pastel colors. Even the grassy boulevard in front of a home Nancy Reagan may visit has been replanted. Like a latter-day Potemkin village, Moscow last week was being spruced up for next week's summit meeting between Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. But the most noteworthy preparation for the superpower sit-down was in progress about 2,000 miles from the Kremlin on the dusty, sunbaked plateaus of northern Afghanistan. There a convoy...
...beautiful, of course. "People notice one's association with Claudia," observes one of her lovers, a multimillionaire entrepreneur. "Men are envious -- women are impressed." Claudia is also formidable. Her only child Lisa cowers in the knowledge that she is too "pallid" to be a worthy offspring of this latter-day Artemis. Lisa's husband is understandably terrified of his mother-in-law too. "Damp handshake, damp opinions," sighs Claudia with a snob's sere accuracy. "At the very sight of me his vowels falter...