Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move viewed as a partial concession to the powerful and militant Mather House Student Breakfast Lobby, Dean Fox irons a new wrinkle into the breakfast austerity game: cold breakfasts... in bed. The resurrected Harvard Enquirer runs a feature story on the so-called "wet blanket" plan, querying: "Is Dean Fox the New Marie Antionette...
...habit. That night I wanted to lock the bedroom door, and told him 'This way, if they come, you will be ready with your pistol.' A general who was our friend called to ask if my husband had ordered military trucks to move toward our house. The trucks were moving, and we thought they were against us. (We later learned they were sent to protect us.) I went upstairs to my oldest daughter, Lubna, and suggested she sleep that night in the house of my sister. She was only 17, but she said 'If they blow...
...wonders whether Anwar Sadat sat on that veranda as he first began to contemplate his journey to Jerusalem?a move at once simple and awesome like the Pyramids themselves. We do know that not far from this resthouse Israeli and Egyptian negotiators have been meeting now for two weeks in an old hotel. It is in keeping with the spirit of a region where mirage and reality blend that the negotiators are at a bureaucratic level, which guarantees that no significant progress could be made until Premier Begin and President Sadat had met in Ismailia. But the mere presence...
...Yamani and other ministers politely dismissed Pérez's move. To show his displeasure, Yamani that night even developed a diplomatic illness that enabled him to skip the seven-course, two-wine extravaganza offered by Pérez. Then, during a long session in the hotel suite of the Venezuelan oil minister after dinner, the 13 OPEC ministers agreed that there would be no increase at least until their next meeting in June. (Officially they failed to make a price decision, but that has the same effect as voting a freeze.) Saudi Arabia is expected to continue pushing for a price...
...Smart move," said a faculty member. "Instead of importing some managerial type, they got a humanist to soften the blow." The humanist in question is A. (for Angelo) Bartlett Giamatti, 39, a Yale professor of Renaissance literature, who last week was named 19th president of the university after a nine-month search almost as much talked about as David O. Selznick's pursuit of the perfect Scarlett O'Hara. The blow that he will have to soften is a painful but inevitable cutback on spending...