Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instituted in 1971, the Alumni College offers 150 alumni three one-week courses in different topics. This year's topics are "Mid-life and After: Aspects of Aging in America," "The Heritage of Classical Civilization," and "The Arts of Asia...
...theory concerning the underwriting of Skylab, claims will bebased on information the policy holder gives us," an employee of the Prudential Life Insurance casualty and property division said. "If Skylab destroys property a policy holder files a claim. Writing up policies to cover events like Skylab was unimaginable, but that probably is all going to change...
Things happen, of course, but only up to a point. The professor, perhaps inevitably, finds himself outgrown by the Iowa maiden, who does not share his reticence about reaching out for life. The Washington careerist, "bright but not too bright" and full of muddled optimism, glimpses the fact that the convergence theory of history, as applied to the evolution of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., is bad news because it is turning the world into a wall-to-wall bureaucracy. "We are not completing anything," the Soviet says. "And we are not being used up in order for anything...
...humiliation of the British at Castlebar. This is all history, and so is the piteous climax, as Lord Cornwallis sweeps in with his troops against the rebels, determined not to endure another Yorktown. In his prodigious first novel, Thomas Flanagan grants this historic episode a new and panoramic life...
...York City. Born to Jewish parents in Latvia, Halsman spent ten years as a successful fashion photographer in Paris before fleeing to the U.S. in 1940, one step ahead of the Nazis. In New York, he became a frequent contributor to Look, the Saturday Evening Post and LIFE, for which he did more covers (101) than any other photographer. Three of his portraits-of Albert Einstein, John Steinbeck and Adlai Stevenson-appeared on postage stamps. These and others of John Kennedy and Winston Churchill are so indelible that one critic noted, "The chances are, when we see [these figures...