Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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High marks must go to U.S. Ambassador to Cairo Hermann Eilts. A slight, crewcut, Arabic-speaking diplomat, Eilts has developed a close working relationship with Egypt's President Sadat and his Foreign Minister, Ismail Fahmy. Though he has a profound dislike of airplanes-he once drove two days from Aswan to Cairo just to avoid the one-hour flight-Eilts nonetheless made seven intercontinental trips between April 2 and last week, carrying messages between Sadat and Kissinger...
Chen is a small man, with the slight wiry build of a teen-aged boy. His face is animated and supple, often scrunching into a hundred creases to accommodate a large smile. He dresses simply, favoring the kind of baggy shirts that permit his arms to move freely...
...claims to have derived his acute sense of rhythm from Chinese literature, its uniform stresses making him sensitive to slight variations in meter. And his desire to immerse himself in the moment without guilt about the past or ambition for the future, is no less Chinese. "The most beautiful thing is the concentration. When children see an object like an insect, a butterfly or a fruit, they have complete absorption in that object. And if you can capture that, that is beautiful...
...theatrical career-in fact his parents named him for Shakespeare's Othello. Since his family lacked money for acting lessons, he joined the army instead. He served for five years in Angola and for three in Guinea-Bissau under Spínola, who, in a never forgotten slight, excluded the brash young captain from his inner circle of trusted officers...
...mutations by themselves. When the urine of rats that had been fed to three of the remaining compounds was placed in the culture dishes, it too produced mutations, suggesting that the chemicals, which may not cause cancer directly, are metabolized in the body into substances that do. With a slight change in the test method, three other compounds also proved mutagenic...