Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quincy House Arts Week, in its fifth year, began Friday afternoon and concludes on April 25 with the premiere of "The Tempest" on the Loeb Theater mainstage...
...House), screenwriter (Silver City) and movie actor (The Devil's Playground). The subjects of his nearly 20 books are equally protean: Joan of Arc, the U.S. Civil War battle at Antietam, World War I armistice negotiations, exploration in Antarctica. His 1982 volume, Schindler's List, set off a literary tempest: although it told of an actual German businessman who saved some 1,300 Jews from the Nazis, the book was awarded Britain's prestigious Booker McConnell prize for fiction, eligible apparently because Keneally used novelistic techniques of narrative and reconstruction in telling a true story...
...five labor leaders were in custody. A state of emergency, declared when the coup attempt began, had yet to be lifted, and there were signs that Prem might shake up his Cabinet to give his government a needed boost of confidence. "This is and will be known as a tempest in a teapot," editorialized the Nation Review, an English- language daily in Bangkok. "But how other countries will view it is difficult...
...issue was one of fairness, not of law. Said Daily News Managing Editor James Willse: "If you say someone is charged with a crime in the past and don't give the disposition of the case, that's not complete reporting." Other editors viewed the episode as a tempest in an inkpot. "This doesn't seem to be one of the greatest issues of our time," said Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, whose paper ran the series with a separate story explaining Dellacroce's acquittal (and his recent indictment on racketeering charges). Many papers also printed Sinatra's response...