Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After leaving Harvard, I visited Rhodesia and South Africa as a journalist and was thrown out of the latter country for interviewing Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who had been banned by the South African government. Then as now, the South African government was hell-bent on destroying every African leader who showed his head. The system there will not reform itself from within...
...actual experiment that prompted the book was conducted on 400 "monogamous" and 400 "non-monogamous" heterosexuals in New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis and Atlanta. The researchers found that in the latter, promiscuous, group, 5 percent of the males (or 10), and 7 percent of the females (or 14) tested positive for the AIDS virus. This is a small sample on which to base national policy, and there are a number of flaws that make the results untenable. If those 24 people were in any way representative of the general populace, there would indeed be cause for grave worry...
...collectors and museumgoers as the quintessential Jewish artist of the 20th century, even though he was not Orthodox and professed, if anything, a discreet and nonmilitant atheism. He had a lyric, flyaway, enraptured imagination, allied to an enviable fluency of hand; the former could weaken into marzipan poignancy, the latter into routine charm. He left behind him an oeuvre of paintings, drawings, prints, book illustrations, private and public art of every kind, rivaling Picasso's in size, if not always in variety or intensity. The number of novice collectors who cut their milk teeth on a Chagall print (Bella with...
...nine-member Council concluded its discussion by retroactively approving the bay windows, with the four CCA members dissenting. One of the latter, Councillor David E. Sullivan, said the decision "encourages disrespect for the law" and said developers would decide in the future that "we'll do the work first and ask questions later...
This season, Harvard is hoping that the sun will shine on both Soldiers Field and the softball program. But the job must be done without graduated pitcher Janet Dickerman, first baseman Trisha Brown, third baseman Lisa Rowning and catcher Gia Baressi. The latter three had started for four years...