Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young man on the videotape appeared pale and tired, but his identity was unmistakable. He was Wuer Kaixi, 21, the former Beijing Normal University freshman who emerged as the most charismatic leader during the student uprising in China, then disappeared after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. He evidently spoke from hiding in Hong Kong, where he is believed to have fled in mid-June through Macao. Thanks to an effective underground of sympathizers, only six of the 21 most-wanted student leaders have been apprehended. Wuer's friends say he may go to the U.S. to organize an alliance...
...Middle East, people go temporarily insane, so if you are planning to talk to an audience of more than two, you'd better have mastered the subject. Second, a Jew who wants to make a career working in or studying about the Middle East will always be a lonely man: he will never be fully accepted or trusted by the Arabs, and he will never be fully accepted or trusted by the Jews...
Price, today a paraplegic from cancer of the spine, cites Freud's comment that the most important day of a man's life is the day his father dies. It may have been the day that Reynolds Price truly became the writer he hoped...
...name at the top of the party roster reads Jiang Zemin, but power in China still rests in the hands of a few octogenarians. So it made sense for them to choose as party General Secretary a man known as "the weather vane." Jiang is the consummate apparatchik, whose rise to nominal power rests almost wholly on his ability to read China's swirling political winds correctly. The 63-year-old former mayor of Shanghai perfectly mirrors the party line of the moment -- slower economic reform coupled with rigid political orthodoxy -- as he made clear last week in his maiden...
...man in charge of the all-important fundraising wing of the University is Vice President for Alumni Affairs Fred L. Glimp '50, a former dean of the College. Glimp's job should soon become considerably tougher as Harvard prepares to launch the most ambitious fundraising campaign ever waged by a university...