Word: list
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...linger on for millions who had heard it on film and stage. Homer must have known someone very much like Richard Burton. Describing Odysseus' effect on an audience in a faraway land, the poet wrote: "He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear his voice, that list'ning still they seemed to hear...
...these zealots die in the course of the book, victims of their inability to see beyond their fanatic blinders. Ironically, the only fanatic who lives is the one who can see the least, the myopic reporter who covers the events in Canudos. Judging from the casualty list, the journalist's monomania is the one kind Vargas-Llosa approves...
Given that we cannot even hold talks with the Soviets on freezing our nuclear arsenals, finding a way to dismantle the whole lot is a heady task indeed. And, if Schell's list of positive human attributes ever did hold away in foreign policy matters, we probably wouldn't have to bother with his complicated solution...
...decision to hold its population conference in Mexico City could hardly be more appropriate. In all its splendor and squalor, the Mexican capital is the archetype of Third World megacities that are climbing to the top of the list of the world's major urban centers (see following story). Says Allan Rosenfield, director of Columbia University's Center for Population and Family Health: "We in the West haven't done very well managing our big cities. How Indonesia, India, Mexico and other Third World countries can handle them is beyond my comprehension...
...reach 50. The Likud bloc knew it would be strengthened not only by Tehiya's five seats but by the two won by Morasha, a hard-line religious party, for a total of 48. Two predominantly Arab parties, the Communist Hadash and the new Jewish-Arab Progressive List for Peace, do not figure in any calculations, since neither Labor nor Likud would accept their six seats in a coalition government...