Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saga of Gemini 5 was widely reported for the ear on radio and the eye on television, and in the daily headlines. The aim of TIME'S mission is to go to a substantially greater depth than the sounds and sights and to present a coherent, meaningful story of the flight−its drama, its trials and its significance−in terms that reach not only the ear and eye but also the mind...
Money & Truth. Discovered last April 27 among the papers of Royall Tyler, an unsuccessful suitor of John's daughter Abigail, in the archives of the Vermont Historical Society, the new diary contains entries from 1753 to 1758, partly overlapping the previous diary and pushing the saga of John's life back two years to his career as a Harvard sophomore. The discovery shows a younger John Adams, says L.H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and "sheds a good deal of light on the character and training of the farmer's son who became...
Died. Maria Dabrowska, 75, Poland's grande dame of letters and critic of Communist censorship, who last year joined 33 prominent intellectuals in a forlorn bid for greater freedom, and persisted after others gave up, best known for her sensitive four-volume saga (Nights and Days, 1934) of the rural gentry, and later studies of the landless peasantry; of heart and kidney ailments; near Warsaw, Poland...
...managed to avert disaster each time with an ingenious plan or a daring, last-minute rescue. Last week Bill Zeckendorf, 59, found himself in the worst trouble of his spectacular career. With no rescue in the script this time, the end seemed finally in sight for a saga that has endlessly fascinated and amazed the business world...
...SAGA OF WESTERN MAN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The story of the Pilgrims, recreated by John Secondari. Color...