Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reads all the way through magazines and books, sometimes gets eight hours of sleep a night, presides over quiet dinners in his Georgetown home. His flop-eared hound Tyler has developed an incurable fondness for the main swimming pool on the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico hills and also his master's warm bed, the instant Kissinger vacates it in the morning. Private Citizen Henry Kissinger has a trick back like millions of other Americans; he also has income tax worries, difficulties with his credit card and is approacinng with some misgivings the day he becomes a homeowner...
Enterprise, the latest effort of Olin Stephens, the master 12-meter designer, has been gaining on Courageous (also a Stephens design) as the matches have progressed. Its San Diego-based skipper, Lowell North, 47, suffered from lack of experience in Atlantic waters during the June matchups. An expensive -and unsuccessful-experiment with new sailcloth cost North additional precious tune. Poor crew coordination and tactical blunders-committed as North turned over the helm to scamper about the deck fiddling with fittings and adjusting the rigging and sails-worsened matters...
...trace of speculative thought in his elaborate allegories. He believed in monarchy, Catholic dogma and the divine right of kings. Fatherless after the age of nine, he reveled in serving strong, authoritarian men. Vitality burgeoning in the midst of a peace guaranteed by authority-such was Rubens' master image. And although he was capable of excruciating flatteries when painting the great (notably his greedy, capricious patroness in France, Marie de Medicis), he seems never, granted his convictions, to have painted an insincere brush stroke in his life...
...millions of years of evolution. Some sociobiologists go so far as to suggest that there may be human genes for such behavior as conformism, homosexuality and spite. Carried to an extreme, sociobiology holds that all forms of life exist solely to serve the purposes of DNA, the coded master molecule that determines the nature of all organisms and is the stuff of genes. As British Ethologist Richard Dawkins describes the role and drive of the genes, they "swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, manipulating it by remote control. They...
...helping transform it from an unassuming satirical weekly into a first-run showcase for many of America's leading authors. Among them: John Cheever, John O'Hara, John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov and Mary McCarthy. She married a New Yorker writer-though he turned out to be a master of nonfiction-named E.B. White...