Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Smith's government and the raid into Mozambique as illegal. To emphasize the point, South Africa's ambassador to Washington, Donald Sole (who represents Rhodesia's interests), was informed of the Administration's displeasure by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Britain also sent Smith a stern message, and the two countries began drawing up a resolution of condemnation to put before the United Nations Security Council...
...capital and two clients, Robert Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) and Newscaster Charles Collingwood. Since then, Josephson has built I.C.M. into a $30 million-a-year multinational company, embracing agents, a concert-booking bureau and a TV station. His 2,250 clients include Actor Laurence Olivier, Playwright Tennessee Williams, Musician Isaac Stern and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Josephson's empire has grown so vast that he now spends most of his time delegating and supervising, although he stitches together immensely complicated deals (current project: a sequel to Gone With the Wind). "His astuteness is with procedure, and he has an accounting machine...
...Carter's case, the crony and the counselor are rolled into one-or rather, two. With their infectious spirits, Jordan and Powell express a frolicsome side of the President that he tends to keep under very stern control. Yet they have also been an indispensable part of the presidential quest from the beginning (Jordan first worked for Carter in 1966, Powell in 1969). Now that their man has achieved his goal, they fill several vital functions-confidants, sounding boards and "no-men"-at annual salaries of $56,000 apiece...
Murray Gell-Mann, Sc.D., physicist. Louise Nevelson, L.H.D., sculptor. Isaac Stern, Mus.D., violinist...
Douglas reasons thus: the stern, rigorous theology of the Puritan fathers was eventually weakened by the less demanding beliefs of such sects as Congregationalism and Unitarianism. Women, once full working partners in clearing and planting the New World, were turned by industrialization and commerce into homemakers and clotheshorses. Shunted to the sidelines, these women and the liberal clergy sought power as guardians of art, literature and refinement. America's sentimental education began. Feeling became more prized than thinking. Popular literature grew trashier at the same time that magazine and book publishing was burgeoning. Narcissism flourished, and with...