Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perplexities are home ground for Author Spencer, who for more than three decades has been publishing subtle, meticulous fiction about her native Mississippi (The Voice at the Back Door) and about Americans in Italy (The Light in the Piazza). She seems to have conceived The Salt Line as her Tempest, with Arnie as an eccentric but passionate Prospero. She portrays him in clear Southern light that shines with a "persistent, steady, invisible fallout of blessing." She invests him with a slightly seedy spirituality by surrounding him with motley religious remnants: an 18-ft.-high statue of the Buddha (flotsam from...
...nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer until elections can be held, later also convened at Scoon's to thresh out the problems of their succession. At stake is the introduction of a democratic system to replace the institutions that were swept away in the tempest of dictatorship, socialist revolution and armed upheaval that has racked Grenada in recent years. Scoon's legal adviser, Commonwealth Constitutional Scholar Antony Rushford, says that Grenada's British-style Independence Constitution of 1973 will be revived in stages, returning the island to a two-house parliamentary system and a majority...
...accident was a heavy blow for Boulder-based Celestial, the largest U.S. maker of herb teas. Said Siegel: "It's been the worst week of my life." Nonetheless, the tempest-in-a-tea-stock is expected to blow over. The comfrey flavor represents a minute share of the Colorado company's total sales, which in fiscal 1983 increased by 26% to $27 million. The public offering will be rescheduled for early next year, when it is likely to bring Siegel a celestial cash windfall of more than $1 million...
...Patrick Gray should be left to "twist slowly, slowly in the wind" rather than be quickly confirmed by the Senate as FBI director-President Reagan last week tried to reassure anxious former campaign aides. He was suggesting that none will be fired from his present position because of the tempest over how his staff secured Jimmy Carter's debate briefing book...
...even with his own "policy" since the Freshman Week calendar lists religious events, including a Hillel brunch, and a gathering for international students (Moses last week admitted to student protesters that this event possibly should not be included in the calendar.) Taken against this backdrop of inconsistency, the bureaucratic tempest in a teapot is even more absurd. And while Moses' intractability may improve his standing in the administration, it strongly erodes his relationship with the students his office is meant to serve...