Word: ma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brigands. All last week word of second-rank leftists who had also been arrested continued to leak out of China. Among them: Vice Education Minister Ch'ih Ch'un, the head of Peking's Tsinghua University, long a bastion of radical power, and Shanghai Party Secretary Ma T'ien-shui. Ma, the wall posters declared, had plotted to arm the urban militia in order to seize power in Shanghai...
Like many of Muriel Spark's best characters, however, Maggie keeps busy being clever. She complains that the "tempo" of her husband's lovemaking is all wrong: "He starts off adagio, adagio. Second phase, well, you might call it al legro ma non troppo and pretty nervy . . ." When she is offstage, Hubert the poseur can usually be counted on for verbal sprightliness. "What is opulence," he asks in his best Oscar Wilde manner, "but a semblance of opulence...
...ma Verité. "I may not be the best adman in the country," says the rumpled, easy-mannered Rafshoon, "but I am the foremost authority on Jimmy Carter in terms of advertising and how it best suits him." The collaboration between the two goes back to 1966, when Rafshoon handled Carter's unsuccessful race for the Georgia Governor's mansion. This year, with the aid of just two writers, two airtime buyers and a tiny office staff, Rafshoon waged a year-long ad blitz in 38 states to win his man the Democratic nomination, preparing and airing commercials...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel during the fall term. All courses will begin during the week of October 5 unless otherwise noted. Course Registration Fee: Student $10, Non-student $20 (for one or more courses) Ulpan student $25, non-student $40. Payable to Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, 1 Bryant Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. No fees for students on scholarship. Registration by mail is accepted...
...consoles made by non-Bell companies. Present regulations require approval of these devices by the FCC. That is not a major burden even to small manufacturers, but the new bill would take the FCC out of the picture and require equipment approval by utility regulators in all 50 states. Ma Bell is well prepared for these laborious procedures; the smaller companies...