Word: parke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sneider said his experiences with the Tongsun Park affair convinced him that foreign service officers cannot ignore the impact of domestic politics on diplomacy...
...fact, Alioto has a fairly decent record to show for her four years on the Boston School Committee and there really is some substance behind the fluff. During her first year on the committee she appeared at a Hyde Park anti-busing meeting and stood up to the hooting crowd, telling them that their children, no matter what, were going to receive an integrated education...
...young immigrant who became head of his own public relations firm in the 1920s, the walrus-mustached Sonnenberg dressed like an Edwardian, cultivated the rich and powerful, and lived in a style most of his clients envied. In his 37-room, antique-filled mansion on Manhattan's Gramercy Park, he held lavish soirées at which he flourished as raconteur and keeper of secrets, wheeler-dealer and patron of intellectuals. Sonnenberg once proclaimed: "I want my house and office to convey an impression of stability and to give myself a dimension, background and tradition that go back...
There is only one scene--two old Jewish men on bench in a park--and no breaks. The piece just winds up and up and up with rolling variations on melodic conversation--the kind of talk you know immigrant grandfathers share in their...
Reported Diederich: "Piles of lettuce and carrots lay rotting alongside empty stalls of the central market on Morazan Park. Just a few people ventured along the streets, holding white flags. Others stood in their doorways, moving back into their adobe-walled homes and shops when a rifle cracked close by. 'That's the National Guard,' said a bare-chested man hearing a shot. 'They have the big-sounding guns...