Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kitchen Chair. That was too much for the Russians, who had thus far contributed very little to Peru. They were still smarting from Rumania's tart observation that, in the wake of floods in their Communist country, the U.S. had contributed more help than fraternal Russia. Three days after Mrs. Nixon left Peru, giant Antonov An-22 cargo ships began winging from Moscow to Lima, carrying 100 prefab houses, road-building machines, 200 beds and helicopters to be used in remote areas. On her return flight, Mrs. Nixon had hinted at this anticipated effort: "We're going...
Unlike Picasso, Matisse left in his wake no memoirs by discarded mistresses, no picture books by importunate photographers. His paintings themselves are his only biography, but they tell all: an intimate diary as well as a public record of his subtle intuition, his patiently probing intellect, his will. Now Pierre Schneider, an American critic and journalist who works in Paris, has put Matisse's biography on the walls of the Grand Palais, where some 250 pictures span Matisse's prodigious life work. It is the most important show in Europe this year...
Though that fact is hardly news, the three authors' detailed, provocative and thoroughly partisan review of the space program should command attention, particularly as the U.S. takes its bearings again in the wake of the near tragedy that befell Apollo 13 and the recent inquiry assigning blame for it to U.S. industry and NASA alike. For its humor and irreverence, Brian O'Leary's tale of what it is like to be an astronaut dropout is also worthy of note...
...sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be?... At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep...
Many Russians would feel less unsettled by the new portrayal of Stalin if the present regime of Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin were not embarked upon a campaign of selective repression against intellectual dissidents. In the wake of arrests and harassment of outstanding writers, scientists and civil libertarians, some Russians fear, the more favorable official view of Stalin will lessen the pressures on the government to refrain from the harsh practices that so severely scarred his 27-year rule of Russia...