Word: poling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Soviet skiers completed a 78-day, 1,056-mile trek to the North Pole, for example, he was flown there to interview them...
...students want to know more than how Harvard works. Though some students do fall into the two extreme groups Fox cites--at one pole requesting only factual information, at the other demanding that the University make decisions for them--most fall into the middle group, wanting that elusive Faculty contact simply because they believe their education will improve by spending time with professors...
...have climbed to the top of the greasy pole," he said when he became Prime Minister, and this series is a capsule history of that slippery ascent. He was able to enter politics only because his father had fought with his synagogue and had had his children baptized as Christians. Disraeli's enemies never forgot his origin, however, and when he was finally elected to Parliament, he was hooted down when he tried to speak. "The time will come when you will hear me," he responded. It was a prediction he made come true through force of will...
...taken to Canada at the age often when his diplomat father was posted to Montreal before World War II. When the Soviets installed a Communist government in Poland after the war, the family was cut off from its homeland for good. Says one Columbia professor: "Brzezinski thinks like a Pole. With hundreds of years of Polish history behind him, he is pathologically opposed to Russia and its modern-day successor, the U.S.S.R." Recently a ranking Soviet official summed up Brzezinski as follows: "Once a Pole, always a Pole. And we know about Poles...
...overwhelmed by the force, wit and elegance of individual pictures. The strongest work is the product of sensibilities inclined towards the commonplace, the fragmentary, the unresolved, and the best photographs are frequently of nothing much at all. Duane Powell gets a peculiar, hovering beauty out of a telephone pole, the cresent of a car top, and a nubbly expanse of sand. Bill de Palma's black-and-white picture of a black billboard, a line of trees, two parked cars and a man in an overcoat holding a paper cup, beside a wet-haired kid wearing sunglasses, is a display...