Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico City, the government of Luis Echeverría Alvarez has been troubled by the prospect of an economic boycott, principally involving the tourist industry, carried out by American Jewish organizations in the wake of Mexico's vote for the Zionism resolution. Faced with a big drop in the country's billion-dollar tourist business, President Echeverría two weeks ago entertained a group of visiting Jewish leaders at a kosher luncheon (lox, roast chicken, white wine). He said that Mexico voted for the measure only because it was trying to prod Israel into a dialogue with...
...other living saints, giving means devoting their lives entirely to the needs of orphans. Austrian Catholic Hermann Gmeiner, 56, saw that need in the wake of World War II, when Europe was crowded with homeless refugee children. He took a leaf from his childhood-an older sister had raised the eight other children after his mother died-and built the first in a series of "S O S villages" that now care for 15,000 orphans round the world. Every village consists of a cluster of houses, each presided over by a foster mother who cares for eight...
Like the ever recycling figures who fall and rise through Finnegans Wake, James Joyce refuses to stay buried. A character bearing his name is currently cutting linguistic capers in the Broadway hit Travesties. The discovery of some exam papers Joyce wrote while seeking a teaching certificate in 1912 was recently headlined in the New York Times. Going on sale next week is a facsimile of the Ulysses manuscript (three volumes; Octagon Books). Price: $150. For a writer who labored half his life in seething obscurity, Joyce has achieved a renown that might sate even his massive Irish appetite for irony...
...audience came after the steamed Wuchang fish course during the big banquet held in the Great Hall of the People the night he arrived. Ford had finished his toast to the Chinese and was moving along the head tables clinking glasses. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger trailed in his wake. When they reached Mao's grandniece, Wang Hai-jung, a vice minister who arranged Kissinger's meeting with Mao in October, Kissinger leaned over to her and said: "I suppose you are going to ask us to make a formal request to see the Chairman...
...criticism cheerfully. In a period dominated by Ezra Pound's fierce injunction, "Make it new!" he admitted: "I am not an innovator but a rediscoverer of forgotten goods." Many of his works were in one way or another derivative. The Skin of Our Teeth was born of Finnegans Wake. The Merchant of Yonkers (1938) evolved from a 19th century Viennese farce and developed into The Matchmaker (1954) and Hello, Dolly...