Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THAT bitter justification for demanding that New York City seek statehood carries the contemporary flavor of Mayor John Lindsay's continuing crusade for municipal independence. Yet it was offered more than a century ago by a Lindsay predecessor, Mayor Fernando Wood, in 1861. More recent mayors, including Jimmy Walker and Robert Wagner, have sought similar escape from the political shackles imposed by a state that the city dominates in almost every other way. In 1959 the New York City council approved creation of a committee to study secession, and a bill calling for a referendum on the establishing...
...will be joined at the Commencement ceremonies by both his predecessor (James B. Conant '13) and his successor (Derek C. Bok). This is the first time in more than a century that three Harvard Presidents will be present at a Harvard Commencement...
EGYPT'S President Anwar Sadat paid a call last month on the family of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser, his political predecessor and mentor. Sadat had an urgent request: Could he have the $36,000 bulletproof Mercedes limousine that had been parked in the family garage ever since Nasser's death last September? No, replied the family; the car had belonged to the man, not the office. In the midst of a heated argument that followed, Nasser's impulsive son Khalid, 23, dashed to the garage, doused the Mercedes with gasoline, and set it afire...
...they had tried to make Sadat answerable to the party. He insisted on being President in fact as well as in name. If Sadat can make the purge stick-and there was every indication last week that he can-he may well emerge with as much power as his predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser, ever enjoyed...
Antigone wants only to perform the ritual of burying her dead brother Polynices. But he has died fighting against Thebes, and the city-state's tyrant, Creon, orders that the body lie unburied. Blind as his predecessor Oedipus, Creon unknowingly flouts the gods in his overweening pride. Moreover, Antigone is Oedipus' daughter. In Greek tragedy, the mills of the gods grind from generation to generation. Antigone buries her brother at the cost of her life, and Creon forfeits the lives of his son and his wife to the gods' anger...