Word: verie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wild a Dream proves that this ironic network Polonius was veri-fiably young once, a hard-edged radical and a complete stranger to the pundit's chair. First published 30 years ago, Sevareid's precocious autobiography was then compared with The Education of Henry Adams. It wound up around fifth on the bestseller charts, making the New York Times 1946 list of "Ten Best Books of the Year." Three decades later, young Sevareid's memoir does not seem quite in the Adams class. Yet it remains an important book with a new kind of timeliness...
ROGER FISHER PROFESSOR OF LAW advocated that his International Conflict for Beginners be revised to include International Conflict fot Beginners on Ice, when Richard Pipes. Director of the Russian Research Center, announced that Harvard was going to put out a Slavic daily called Veri Tass. On rethinking the situation entirely. Roger Fisher decided to call the book War and Peace...
...with you that I shall end my life." Despite that airy prediction, the two drifted apart after a brief affair, and they did not meet again until 1967. Malraux, then separated from his wife Madeleine, determined to keep his prophecy. He moved into the Vilmorin château at Verières-le-Buisson. not far from Paris, beginning a period of almost carefree happiness. Then tragedy struck, as it had so many times in Malraux's life. The day after Christmas in 1969, Louise suddenly died of a heart attack. Malraux's despair was such, relates...