Word: levi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Myung Moon, who seems to be guided by the Gospel according to Guinness, as the "largest mass marriage in history." A total of 4,150 members of the Unification Church were united in 2,075 marriages performed at Madison Square Garden. Moon, something of a spiritual Dolly Levi to his flock, personally matched up the couples-many had met for the first time only days before-and some, of different nationalities, were able to converse with their new mates only through interpreters. The newlyweds will now return home until Moon gives the go-ahead for them to move in with...
Shultz's one major conflict at Chicago came when he banned the use of loudspeakers at a rally against the Viet Nam War. When Edward Levi, the university's president, overruled him, Shultz resigned. His friends on the faculty, including conservative Economist Milton Friedman, pressured him to reconsider. Levi ranks among Shultz's admirers. Says he: "George knows how to deal with people. He is an inspirational individual...
...industrious copycats of Asia have long churned out counterfeit or cut-rate versions of name-brand Western products, including Levi's jeans, Samsonite luggage, Johnnie Walker Scotch, Rolex watches and even Rubik's Cube. Now the me-too factories of the Pacific rim have a new target: the popular Apple personal computer...
...Among his 444 sources are a lot of counter-culture authorities like Wilhelm Reich and other fringe types who rely on each other for corroboration and consequently get discarded en masse, but Wilber also anchors his theory with some powerful ideas from the safe thinkers, such as Freud, Levi-Straus, Durkheim, Chomsky and that old mystic. Hegel Wilber's grasp on the bannister of western social science is too tight to dislodge, so if the existing regime kicks him down the stairs, he takes the stairs with...
DIED. Julian Levi, 81, painter and teacher whose work drifted from conventional seascapes to semi-abstract scenes; of a heart attack; in New York City...