Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Buddha. In return Paul VI gave the Dalai Lama a pontifical medal and a book about his own trip to the Far East. The two parted beaming from a summit conference described by one Vatican watcher as "an encounter of the two Gospels," Christ's Sermon on the Mount and Buddha's Sermon on the Benares...
...vulgarization and materialism of postwar Japan. As the novel ends, Honda, who has begun to sound like a Japanese Humbert Humbert in his pursuit of his Thai princess-now a student in Japan-secretly watches her in a lesbian embrace. Then Honda's mansion at the foot of Mount Fuji burns to the ground like a pyre at Benares, the flyaway ashes sporadically sizzling into his new swimming pool. The combination of filigreed Oriental pornography and slightly cheap Götterdämmerung has sometimes been a contaminating tendency in Mishima's work. But the rest...
...really many Souths--"I certainly never saw any Scarlet O'Haras when I was growing up"--and that sweeping stereotypes of the region too often reflect simplistic or biased reasoning. He even militates quietly against the typing tendencies evident, for example, among Boston realtors: They took him directly to Mount Vernon replicas when he began house-hunting here and happened to mention his background. "Mount Vernon homes are lovely," he conceded, "but not all southerners live in them...
...field hospital. During the Depression she put her jewels into a vault, canceled their insurance, and used the money saved for a New York kitchen that fed 1,000 people daily. Her endowments to C.W. Post College of Long Island University and her own alma mater, Mount Vernon Junior College have long been the envy of less wealthy institutions. She gave well over $1,000,000 to the Washington National Symphony Orchestra...
...many months and had not been influenced by the current world monetary disarray. However, Volvo may well profit from the money tangle. As the value of many currencies (including Sweden's krona) has continued to rise against the dollar−and as foreign labor costs have continued to mount−the once huge gap between U.S. and other countries' wages has narrowed. Other foreign automakers are only a few steps behind Volvo. Last week Volkswagen officials acknowledged that they are studying the feasibility of a U.S. assembly plant, and big Japanese builders like Datsun and Mazda are also...