Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swift vanishing of my older/ generation," Robert Lowell lamented in a sonnet not long ago, "the deaths, suicide, madness/ of Roethke, Berryman, Jarrell and Lowell." There was a justifiable pride in this facetious reference to himself, for while his contemporaries died early, Lowell seemed to thrive on middle age. He too had been humbled by madness-an experience he documented in Life Studies (1959)-but had survived to become America's most distinguished contemporary poet. When Lowell died last week of a heart attack in a New York City taxi at the age of 60, he was enjoying...
...Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Criminal Office) estimates that some 1,200 persons in West Germany could become active and dangerous at any time," and an additional 6,000 might give the terrorists "more than verbal support " No wonder that traditionally law-abiding West Germans are clamoring loudly for Bonn to take swift and decisive action against what appears to be a terrorist epidemic...
...played by the Cleveland Quartet, Emanuel Ax pianist, RCA). This concert perennial is easily recognized by its opening second movement theme, a sound- alike for the late 1940s popular song Nature Boy. The quintet is often said to reflect the composer's sunny, lyric disposition, and even the swift changes in tempo and sudden clouds of melancholy cannot dampen the work's high spirits. Both the Juilliard with Firkusny and the Cleveland with Ax are faithful to the Dvorak spirit. The older Juilliard brings a muscular exuberance to the piece, while the youthful members of the Cleveland achieve...
Still, neither Shmuel Katz nor any single organization can be wholly credited with the swift turnabout in attitudes toward Begin. Also responsible was a series of extemporaneous efforts by hundreds of Jewish groups and thousands of individual Jews who feared that any wavering of support for the Jerusalem government-however hawkish the Premier -might endanger Israel's survival...
With that swift work, the short, stocky, usually smiling Wang disposed of the leaders of the radicals in the post-Mao struggle for power in China and opened the way for the triumph that Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and his so-called moderates celebrated at the eleventh Party Congress. There, Wang also got his reward: he was named one of the four party vice chairmen and placed on the Standing Committee, which runs China's 35 million-member party - and thus the nation itself. Along the way Wang also got a personal encomium from Chairman Hua, who praised...