Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poetic voice is strong and his speaking voice mellow, as if he just sipped a special elixir--tea and honey, perhaps. Sitting in Robert Fitzgerald's office before his afternoon reading at Boylston auditorium. Tate looks every bit the Southern gentleman--debonair, impeccably dressed, a hint of Basil Ransom, years after The Bostonians, but with the high forehead and thin, tapered fingers reserved for artists and poets...
...vitality belies a long career whose roots are with Edgar Allen Poe and Rudyard Kipling, whose growth shows the influence of John Crowe Ransom and T.S. Eliot and whose maturity, in turn, affected Theodore Roethke and John Berryman. It is somehow easier to believe Tate has had three children in the past four years than to realize Robert E. Lee and James Meredith could figure in his imagination simultaneously...
...ordinary thief. Eight days after the robbery, the phone rang in the office of Walter Schwilden. an editor at Brussels' Le Soir. The caller identified himself as Till Eulenspiegel, the legendary German counterpart of Robin Hood. Till declared that he wanted nothing for himself. He demanded a ransom of $4,000,000, paid to a relief organization for East Pakistan refugees...
...terrorism was presumed to be the work of the militant "provisional" wing of the Irish Republican Army. Last week its estimated 200 guerrilla members in Belfast held the city of 400,000 virtually at ransom. Inevitably, the Protestant backlash began to take shape. The Ulster Special Constabulary Association, a body of 10,000 former members of the Protestant B Special police that were disbanded last year, held a mass meeting and called for the government to rearm them to protect Protestants...
...Committee Chairman Robert Dole's recent statement that there were "just" 1,600 men missing in Indochina sent shock waves through the tightly knit family organizations, as did Secretary of State William Rogers' insistence that the U.S. "can't absolutely abandon our national objectives to pay ransom." The deferential briefings from Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird are recalled by some with bitterness. How many P.O.W. families share the disenchantment is impossible to determine. But Mrs. Fuller voices a biting new version of the briefings: "Now that I know about 'orchestration...