Word: sy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Times article, surely the longest correction ever published in the prestigious paper, was commissioned by Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal at Hersh's suggestion. Says Rosenthal: "Sy called me and said that he had come across new information that indicated that some of the things we had written about Korry were wrong. My God, if we were wrong in any way I would want to correct it. I asked him to write it for the Times." Rosenthal felt the Times had a particular responsibility to correct the record. Says...
...hapless representative, Joe Veriato, takes a long satirical swipe at the movie industry, with a representative collection of fools: Mickey Boorman and Pat Sligo, two pot-smoking "New Wave" filmmakers from L.A.; Carl Dorf, a self-exiled victim of McCarthyism; Dan Rashur, the wunderkind director with the Colgate smile; Sy Joelmersbagger, a tweedy history professor from Yale; and Sir Flute Parsons, an over-the-hill British screenwriter with a fondness for money and American boys. Wood gives each one his brief theatrical moment and tries to build an act out of a few comic situations (like Joe's constant...
...would leave an opening at the top that would quickly be filled by Brzezinski, who was mistrusted. Said a Quai d'Orsay diplomat: "It's not just Brzezinski's rabidly anti-Soviet line that galled, it was his erratic personality. In negotiations, we found him intellectually undisciplined." Dominique Moļsy, an analyst at the French Institute of International Relations, observed: "Some Europeans believe that Carter and Brzezinski negatively complement each other?the natural vagueness of Carter and the adventurousness of Brzezinski." Moscow was greatly relieved that the job would not go to Brzezinski, a man who they feel...
State legislatures and rich alumni naturally prefer to contribute to a prestigious project like a science lab, often without providing money to maintain it. Says Sy Zachar, an analyst working on a study of physical plant maintenance funded by the Carnegie Corp.: "It's easy to find some foundation eager to donate a new tax-deductible library or a shiny new anything. But what donor wants to put a plaque on a steam pipe?" At the University of California at Berkeley, administrators nickname the list of "deferred maintenance" problems the "Crummy and Seedy Project...