Word: meaningful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The oration over, they-meaning Lyndon-discussed what Luci called "the pros and cons," while Pat, Luci and Lady Bird listened. Despite Aristotle's advice that "it is fitting for the women to be married at about the age of 18," Luci's age was an issue. "He...
Unanswered Questions. Though Miranda's specification of police procedure was unusually precise for a Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion raised many unanswered questions. Every suspect must now be warned as soon as he is "deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way...
Mongolian Monitor. L'Équipe (meaning "team") is the world's finest sports newspaper. It devotes almost half its space to athletic events that take place outside France, offers coverage so comprehensive that it probably would not miss a pingpong championship between Inner and Outer Mongolia. The paper...
Britain's General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon blended military pragmatism with missionary zeal, a love of the Bible with a liking for brandy and soda. In 1884, after 100,000 Moslem fanatics had trapped an Egyptian army at Khartoum, Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone sent Gordon (Charlton Heston...
John Barth, college English teacher and a leading comic of the theater of black humor, now makes with his academic robes like Mephistopheles-or perhaps Batman. Out tumbles a gothic fun-house fantasy of theology, sociology and sex, leaping across great tracts of human history. Fascism, Communism, recent wars, revolutions...