Word: pantheon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still enjoy reliving their halcyon days when the communist underground inspired brave fighters to risk their lives in dangerous sabotage missions against the Germans. Thus the French socialist president Francois Mitterand, in his very first symbolic act in office, solemnly paid a visit to Moulin's tomb in the Pantheon of Paris. And now, he will have the bittersweet satisfaction of seeing Moulin's killer brought to justice...
...terms of a work force that labors with an almost cultish devotion to the common economic good. That was before a Japanese journalist named Satoshi Kamata went to work on a Toyota assembly line and kept a diary. The brutal conditions he describes in Japan in the Passing Lane (Pantheon; 211 pages; $14.95) seem like something from a Charles Dickens novel...
...NUCLEAR DELUSION by George F. Kennan; Pantheon; 208 pages; $13.95 WITH ENOUGH SHOVELS by Robert Scheer; Random House; 285 pages...
...tested blue-chip talents. After all, no other musical can boast a T.S. Eliot as its lyricist, so to speak. Even if Eliot was playfully doodling for his godchildren and friends in his 1939 Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, he remains a god in the pantheon of 20th century poets. Cats Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Cos-tumer John Napier, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, took Broadway's breath away last season with their monumental Nicholas Nickleby. And at age 34, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has achieved the unprecedented feat of having three musicals playing simultaneously...
...German masterpieces. It turns out that Nabokov knew a great deal more about Russian literature than about any other. Certainly he is more comfortable in this second volume. He is still, as always, petulant, self-indulgent, and pompous, and since Nabokov insists upon his own status in the Pantheon of literature--which was not so obvious when he was writing these lectures--he has made a conspicuous target of himself...