Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reports TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who is based in Hong Kong: "The mix of popular dissatisfaction, the loss of Mao as a figure of authority and the constant infighting within the bureaucracy have created the most explosive political crisis to face China since the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69. The vast might of the military makes a genuine civil war unlikely, but if lingering unrest and sporadic outbreaks of violence continue, Hua could be shunted aside by the army. His military backers may decide that they have put up the wrong man to deal with the post-Mao crisis...
...illustrious predecessors: the Greek poet Pindar (circa 500 B.C.) wrote an ode without using the letter sigma. Lewis Carroll, an Oxford mathematician better known for the Alice books, liked to mix the logic of numbers with the freedom of dreams. In this century, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings and Vladimir Nabokov all enjoyed the pleasures of arithmetic while exploring the peripheries of language. But it was not until 1960 that the newly formed OuLiPo officiated at the shotgun wedding of science and literature. Its first and still most remarkable product was Cent Milie Milliards de Poems (A Hundred Thousand...
...booze will flow, cheese and crackers will abound, and parties at home, at bars, or anywhere with a television screen will mix drunkenness with football mania...
Charlie's Angels, who've had their hands in a little of everything this season, have also gotten in on the Super Bowl celebration. Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith will mix it up with Joe Namath on television tonight to give us some of the more glamorous moments of the Super Weekend...
...ideal but least feasible alternative would be the creation of four-year Houses. Although the mix of classes would be very positive, the construction and rearrangement of the campus which would be required was considered an impossible undertaking for FAS at this time...