Word: lin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the chosen eponyms are familiar: the sandwich was once an earl; the pompadour a king's mistress; sadism originated with the Marquis de Sade. Many more are likely to surprise: maud lin is the old vernacular form of (Mary) Magdalene, usually pictured weeping: Jules Leotard was a 19th century trapeze artist; mausoleum derives from the tomb of "the wily satrap" Mausolus, in Turkey; and tawdry comes from the cheap souvenirs sold at the shrine of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon princess who was called St. Audrey...
...Lin Mei, associate professor of Chinese; Theodore Morrison, professor of English; Robert Nozick, professor of Philosophy; Joseph S. Nye, Jr., program director of the Center for International Affairs; Gustay F. Papanek, former director of the Development Advisory Service; John R. Pappenheimer, professor of Psychology; E. L. Patullo, director, Center for the Behavioral Sciences; Martin Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies; Charles P. Price, Preacher to the University; John B. Radner, assistant professor of English; Robert Rosenthal, professor of Social Psychology; Robert A. Rothstein, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literature; Zick Rubin, assistant professor of Social Psychology; Samuel Sampson, lecturer...
...title "Supreme Commander of the Whole Nation and the Whole Army," and a new constitution will soon name him head of state, the title held by Liu Shao-chi until he was purged in 1966 as a Soviet-style revisionist. But beneath Mao and his heir apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao, 63, China's leadership is rapidly changing. At almost every level of administration, the radicals who were riding high during the Cultural Revolution are losing power to Chou En-lai's pragmatists and, even more notably, to the army...
CHINA'S foreign relations are daily developing," said Defense Minister Lin Piao at this year's National Day celebrations. "We have friends all over the world." That was not an idle boast. Picking up the pieces of its shattered foreign relations in the wake of Mao Tse-tung's convulsive Cultural Revolution, Peking has mounted a skillful diplomatic offensive. Last week, after nearly two years of secret negotiations, Italy and China recognized each other and agreed to establish diplomatic relations. Only three weeks earlier, Peking had reached a similar agreement with Canada...
...armed forces this year are still searching for work. For example, Jim Krauland, 23, returned to Seattle in April after spending almost four years in the Marines. "I had been a cook," he says, "so I figured that I would be able to get something in that lin; without trouble." He found only one temporary job making sandwiches, and he now subsists on $66 weekly unemployment compensation. "Two friends of mine who got out about the same time that I did are going back into the service because there is no work...