Word: saga
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sakharov was an honest man who was killed many times," said Vitali Korotich, editor of the liberal weekly Ogonyok. The saga of the deathblows inflicted upon Sakharov and his subsequent resurrection reads like a gripping secular sequel to the Russian Orthodox Lives of the Saints. Sakharov had certainly not been expected to survive the frightful ordeal that began in the mid-1970s, when he was targeted by the regime of Leonid Brezhnev as the nation's most dangerous dissident. Vilification in the press, together with threats of imprisonment and assassination, was a common occurrence...
...replay of the famous 1987 saga of the garbage scow that couldn't find a home -- only worse. This time the carrier is a 61-car train. On board: 5,000 tons of sewage sludge, most of it treated human waste. It is nothing to sniff at. In fact, nobody wants...
Lyndon Baines Johnson may have been larger than life, but since his death 16 years ago, he has been getting bigger. The growth spurt is due largely to the diligence of Robert A. Caro, the biographer and political historian who has made L.B.J.'s saga into an obsession and virtually a life's work. Caro is one of the best known of a small breed of long-distance writers who appear from their orbits of research to offer big books on big subjects. Among others in the select group, most of whom tend to be, like Caro, journalist-scholars: Richard...
...history of photojournalism is a saga of technological progress, commercial greed and individual heroism. It includes a shocking number of wars and tragedies -- events with the visual power that compels people to buy newspapers and magazines. But the development of news photography is also the story of how cameras became smaller and film more sensitive, so that journalists could capture the look of the factory, the dance hall, the dictator's study, the sharecropper's cabin and other venues of daily life. These are all here, the momentous and the mundane alike...
Indeed, the likely conclusion to the Gulf station saga will be an unsightly edifice on Mass. Ave., a monument to Harvard's fixation on profitable niceties at the expense of academics...