Word: sideness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pulling the Rhodesian thorn from Britain's side once described himself as "a product of privilege." Indeed, Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 60, sixth Baron Carrington,* bears all the hallmarks of his patrician heritage: urbanity, erudition and an icy self-assurance sometimes bordering on arrogance. He has, says a friend, "that aristocratic, flippant manner that makes him free of inhibitions or a sense of inadequacy." Though he has never held elective office, the trim, impeccably tailored Carrington is regarded as a consummate politician. He has more governmental experience than anyone else in the Thatcher Cabinet-"more than...
...Being a Christian by Hans Küng (Doubleday, 1976). A work of fairly serious theology that became a big seller, this book by Küng, liberal Swiss priest and thorn in the side of the Vatican, offers a revisionist review of such Christian dogmas as the Resurrection...
...Memorial Hospital. There he grabbed a nurse and pushed her into the car, but the woman slid out the opposite door before he could drive off. By now police radios all over the city were crackling: Look out for a white Dodge Dart with an arm protruding from the side of the rusted trunk. Mullins ditched the Dodge, flagged down another motorist, pistol-whipped him and took his car. Minutes later Mullins appeared at a restaurant, where he assaulted a woman and ran off with her purse. At a nearby street corner he picked up a young woman, later described...
...Senate proposal to study such a shift has been sponsored by New York Senator Jacob Javits. Like many another U.S. child of immigrant parents, Javits traces his rise from poverty to the hours he spent after school-working away in the neighborhood public library on the Lower East Side...
...Christian faith in the 19th century, suicide ceased to be a damnable act. The author seems to share Henry Adams' preference for the European 12th century and its security of belief as expressed in the glory of Gothic architecture. He does not assert that descriptions of the dark side of the Yankee mind, the haunted battlefields of the Civil War and the avarice of the Gilded Age as the disturbing context of Henry's and Clover's lives suggest a climate of deepening despair. It is the climate of this richly allusive book, whose central characters...