Word: lionels
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...must have been a shock for Chirac, who is set to run for re-election. Schuller says he wants to "set the record straight," but the RPR suspects a Socialist plot. Either way, it was bad timing for Chirac; polls show him losing his lead over likely Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin, who has played up his "Mr. Clean" image...
...popularity rating is above 90%, the highest in the history of the republic. In Europe, many incumbents may not be so lucky. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who faces an election in September, has seen his chances dented by the continuing economic slump. In France, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and President Jacques Chirac will likely face off for the presidency in a contest that begins in April - but Jospin has been hit by France's failing economy and Chirac by corruption allegations. Asia has a few weak leaders of its own, with Indonesia and Malaysia facing possible turmoil...
That wait came to an end last month when Prime Minister Lionel Jospin officially opened the "Palais de Tokyo, site for contemporary arts." With breathtaking imposture, architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal transformed the monumental 1930s splendor of the Palais de Tokyo building into an exact replica of a derelict warehouse - spending $3.3 million of French taxpayers' money in the process. Exposed electrical cabling runs along the ceiling's chipped I beams. The plaster walls of the main exhibition space are randomly gashed and pockmarked. The café's price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper...
Previous Jefferson lecturers have been Arthur Miller, James McPherson, Caroline Walker Bynum, Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Toulmin, Toni Morrison, Vincent Scully, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bernard Knox, Walker Percy, Cleanth Brooks, Sydney Hook, Barbara Tuchman, Saul Bellow, John Hope Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Erik Erikson, and Lionel Trilling...
More than a half-century ago, in the shadow of Stalin and Auschwitz, the critic Lionel Trilling spoke of "the fatuity that does not know the evil of the world." The other night in Boston, a group of American college students declared that 9/11 and all that has followed are "media hype." Such sinister obtuseness is not typical of their age group, even on college campuses. Still, anytime before Sept. 11, most 19- or 20-year-old students, if asked to name the most dramatic-traumatic public event of their lives, invariably remembered the explosion of the Challenger. Evil...