Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this novel. The universe here is the biggest of all big tops. Mercier and Camier are unwilling clowns in a performance they do not under stand. They are saddled with props - a reluctant umbrella, a sack, a raincoat and a bicycle - and trip helplessly into Alphonse-Gaston stage routines. They are the butt of exquisitely timed mal functions. Their umbrella refuses to open just as the rain, "acting on behalf of the universal malignity," comes down in buckets...
...that today might seem unsavory. The Women's Christian Temperance Union, for example, was not simply the haven of moralistic teetotalers, Frances Willard, its leader, and a pre-eminent feminist, deliberately feed she organization as a vehicle to draw women (especially in the south) into public activity under the umbrella of socially acceptable reform causes such as penal reform, labor legislation, the peace movement. Home economics at its inception was the vision of Ellen Richards, a scientist interested in creating new ways of employing women scientists. Her hopes lay in the broad field of "sanitary science" which covered everything from...
...Missolonghi fever in a wicked imagining by Harold Nicholson, who in his essay has the poet fumble on till 1854-as nothing less than King George I of Greece, "an obese little man descending the steps of the Crystal Palace on his wooden leg, supporting himself on his famous umbrella, and clasping a huge red handkerchief in the other hand." The wooden leg has replaced the clubfoot of Byron's dashing early years, which the poet-King lost, along with all vestiges of poetic vision, while fighting ineptly against the Turks near Lepanto...
...Dictator George Papadopoulos. But Actress Melina Mercouri, an outspoken opponent of the old regime, went down to a narrow defeat on the Pasok ticket in her working-class district in Piraeus. Another loser was Composer Mikis Theodorakis, who ran as one of the candidates of the United Left, an umbrella organization of Greece's three Communist parties...
Alarmed by a resumption of terrorist raids over the Israeli border, Premier Yitzhak Rabin last week summoned a Cabinet meeting to review counterterror precautions. At the same time, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the political umbrella of the guerrilla movement, acknowledged a serious split in its ranks. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the second largest group in the P.L.O. after Fatah, withdrew from the P.L.O. executive council after bitterly attacking the moderate leadership of Yasser Arafat (see box). Another fedayeen group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, has also threatened to leave. The P.L.O...