Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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would anyone become a college president? The job requires a peerless fund raiser, diplomat, orator and cop - a man who can tame romantic radicals, soothe rival professors, work ungodly hours and somehow prove his own scholarly prowess...
...began to draft a reply. It came in the form of a letter from Brandt to East German Premier Willi Stoph. In his low-keyed four-paragraph note, Brandt wrote that the two Germanys should sit down at the negotiating table, in the first high-level meeting since the rival states were created 21 years ago, to discuss a renunciation-of-force agreement. In Brandt's words, the meeting could lead to a full exchange of views on all outstanding issues between "our states," including the problem of "equal relations" between the two parts of Germany. Brandt named...
Cave of the Future. The Modern's rival-and less effective-display, called "Spaces," features five rooms each by a different artist. One, by Dan Flavin, is full of relentlessly glowing fluorescent lights; another, by Larry Bell, is totally dark except for several dimly reflecting glass tubes. Robert Morris created a kind of arctic hothouse, where tiny spruces set in an earth bank simulate an upland for est. Most interesting is the space designed by Franz Erhard Walther, where anybody who comes along is invited to climb into, sit on or play with various canvas objects. This goes...
Nonetheless, the chances that Israel will succeed in undermining Nasser look slim. Last autumn, Nasser banished Ali Sabry, his only evident rival, from the government hierarchy. Diplomats feel that Nasser is now definitely in command. Indeed, he had encouraging news from neighboring Libya, where Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, leader of the coup that ousted King Idris last fall, formally installed himself as Prime Minister. Gaddafi is firmly in Nasser's camp. Libya's barely tapped oil wealth can be a real asset to Nasser...
...Britain seemed to bark back. Animal psychologists protested that dogs "object to being dressed up." The man at Harrods pet department rejected the coats as downright "impractical." The final word came from the venerable Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which sometimes seems to rival Parliament and Crown as a defender of the realm. "This is the kind of fashion," intoned a spokesman at the R.S.P.C.A.'s 100-year-old London headquarters, "in which the feelings of dogs are being ignored...