Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private Refuge. The petty-seeming issue of the trip is actually part of a wider, more complex problem. Premier Constantine Karamanlis, 56, is a tough, staunchly antiCommunist, pro-NATO politician who in his eight years in office (the longest tenure for any Greek prime minister) has given his country stable...
The government campaign may well fizzle, as it did in 1958. Says one expert on China's agriculture: "In the debris of the Great Leap Forward, compulsion cannot work. All that is left is persuasion." Most peasants are convinced nonetheless that they are in for a far more rigorous...
Having been fooled once, many of them take refuge in the safety of "cautious optimism"-but the accent is on optimism. William Allan Patterson. 63, the breezy former banker who heads United Air Lines, feels "a great weight lifting from my shoulders" as a result of the economy's...
The Carpenter Center, Le Corbusier's first building in North America, derives its character from some of the most important of Le Corbusier's designs. The glass walls of the upper levels of the Center evidently appear originally in the Refuge City of the Salvation Army, built in Paris in...
There are the numberless artists who lived to express their visions, or merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a...