Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellow homosexual who issued the closet cri de coeur: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country"). Theo's career as Communist agent is unraveled after his death by bestselling Writer Anthony Stern, a straight second cousin who had been his social inferior and dearest friend...
...delves through Theo's journals and his own memories of their abutting lives, Narrator Stern etches a bleak chronicle of loneliness and lust, punctuated with quiet irony. Stern notes the perennial alibi of the spy: treachery is excusable because it is always performed in the name of humanity. The excuse is held up to the light and found "curiously selective, since few spies seem disposed to share their thefts with anybody but the Soviet Union...
...clearer, better punctuated, more vivid and more conscious of his reader. These are the main goals of Graves, who, with a $240,000 grant from the National Institute of Education, teaches writing to elementary school pupils in a style more like that of a working editor than a stern grammarian. The experiment is part of a wave of writing reform that is sweeping through schools, colleges and businesses all over the U.S. In the age of talk shows, tape recorders, telephonitis and declining educational standards, the clearly written word is swiftly becoming a lost art. The many new courses attempting...
...noisy dissidents, clamored a raucous group protesting not only the coronation but also the country's tight housing policies. Did the royals realize that the dissenters were railing all over their party? Indeed they did. At one point during the day's celebrations, Juliana wagged a stern maternal finger at the demonstrators...
...most of his life since then, he has given everything to the orchestra. Several years ago, he even gave it his two violins ("not great ones like Isaac Stern's, but good ones"). It was a fitting gesture. Ormandy is a virtuoso, all right; but his father's hopes notwithstanding, it is the orchestra that has turned out to be his true instrument...