Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a final round of elections set for May 14, there was evidence last week that some local functionaries had not got the message from the first round of votes. In one district of the Russian city of Pskov, the local electoral commission chose the regional party boss again as its uncontested candidate, despite the fact that he lost his first bid at the ballot box. The liberals could at least claim a triumph in the second round of elections at the Soviet Union's Academy of Sciences. After weeks of debate, academy members finally voted Nobel Peace laureate Andrei...
...Teflon General Secretary, blaming others for the plodding progress of perestroika despite the fact that he has been in charge for more than four years. "Gorbachev's greatest strength may very well be his pragmatism," mused a Moscow intellectual. "He is not dogmatic about carrying out any set program. Instead, he maneuvers in and out of every situation like a clever fox." Nonetheless, with empty store shelves and seething ethnic tensions, many edgy Soviets are counting the days in hopes that the first session of the new congress will mark the point of no return on the path of reform...
...owned restaurants is required for graduation. Students may be taught everything from the psychology of hiring waiters to how to fold napkins or operate credit-card machines. But any would-be chef faces the final test preparing and serving food. The New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vt., has set up one of its restaurants, Tubbs, in a remodeled jail. Says co-founder John Dranow: "We've been influenced by the medical-school model. Students learn better by doing than by watching...
From time to time a new word bursts into the lexicon, capturing with shocking force the latent fears of a troubled age. The latest such word is "wilding," the term used by a band of New York City teenagers to describe the mischief they set out to commit on a clear April night in Central Park. Looking, they said, for something to do, they roamed the park's northern reaches, splintering into smaller groups and allegedly assaulting one hapless victim after another. Finally, one pack came upon a 28-year-old woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees...
...Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights has a surreal and oxymoronic ring. Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, better known as a patron of terrorism than a benefactor of humanitarian causes, has unaccountably set up a Swiss foundation to bestow an annual award on a Third World figure in the forefront of "liberation struggles." Last week Nelson Mandela, the jailed black South African leader, was named the first recipient of the prize and the $250,000 that goes with...