Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lance Morrow's timely tribute to Ralph Waldo Emerson [May 10] may have salvaged singlehanded the man's work from burial. Past generations of students were probably bored stiff with Emerson, but today we would be hard-pressed to find a public school where Emerson hasn't long ago been replaced by tales of streetwise punks-all in the name of relevancy...
...Thatcher, the signs of growing disunity among her Western European allies were more alarming than domestic doubts. Before the Belgrano sinking, Western Europe had been unanimous in supporting Britain, to the point of imposing stiff economic sanctions and suspending trade relations with Argentina. The first country to break ranks was Ireland. Immediately after the sinking of the Argentine cruiser, the Irish government declared that it was "appalled by the outbreak of what amounts to open war" in the South Atlantic, and said it was "imperative" that the U.N. become involved in settling the dispute. Irish Defense Minister Patrick Power went...
...both cases, Harvard got what it wanted--an empty apartment building. But this time, in the words of city councilor David Sullivan, the University "paid a stiff price...
Director Marvin Chomsky (Roots; Holocaust; My Body, My Child) has usually been willing to sacrifice pace for performance. This time the tempo of fascism has given his film a compelling rhythm, and a company of distinguished actors has lent it an elegant tone. Gielgud is haughtily endearing, a stiff-collared gentleman who speaks in the cadences of Schiller and dreams in the images of Goethe. Robert Vaughn displays a flinty decency as Field Marshal Milch, who probes surgically for Speer's conscience, or at least his common sense. As Hitler, Jacobi spellbinds-first with the ingratiating gifts...
Though Prince Aleksey Andreyevich Orlov is only 30, he is the emissary whom his uncle, Czar Nicholas II, trusts with a secret task: extracting a stiff price for Russian commitment. Orlov has other credentials: another uncle is the Earl of Walden, a father figure to young Orlov since the boy's Oxford days. Together, the relatives negotiate the fate of their respective nations. It is not an easy matter. In Russia, revolutionaries are appalled at the prospect of war. Feliks Kschessinsky, a terrorist leader, fulminates, "Half the misery in the world is caused by nice young men like Orlov...