Word: wakefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teng's rehabilitation in 1973, a move that had to be approved by Mao, attests to Chou En-lai's determination to rebuild the governing hierarchy in the wake of the Cultural Revolution's devastations. But clearly Teng's ascent to the pinnacle of China's huge bureaucracy is equally due to the fact that he is a tough, shrewd and talented administrator?just the kind of man needed by Chou and Mao to help pull the bureaucracy back together...
Yale University has instituted a number of new security measure in the wake of two violent crimes that have occurred in campus dormitories this fall...
Nadjari, 51, had compiled a reasonably good record. He became known as a superb prosecutor during 20 years in New York City and nearby Suffolk County before then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller named him special prosecutor in 1972. The post was created in the malodorous wake of the Knapp Commission hearings on official corruption in the Big Apple, and Nadjari was given extraordinary powers. A Democrat-turned-Republican, Superprosecutor Nadjari went on to indict 296 persons on various charges of corruption. He won guilty verdicts against one district attorney (later reversed) and a number of lesser government officials. No fewer than...
...spend most of his youth consorting with Dublin prostitutes and most of his maturity lying drunk in a succession of Continental gutters. Clearly the man liked wine and women; it is his song that Davies manages to ignore. He dismisses, for instance, the difficult but hardly inaccessible Finnegans Wake as a "monument to perversity." So much for 18 years of his subject's life-and for a palimpsest dream-epic of surpassing erudition and beauty. Davies' stumblebum Joyce is thus every bit as one-dimensional as the St. James who has been propped up by generations of acolytes...
...priest who would transform the bread of common life into art. As these newly released letters show, the aloof classicist also struggled with the dark sensualist. "It is strange," Joyce wrote Nora in 1904, "from what muddy pools the angels call forth a spirit of beauty." Ulysses and Finnegans Wake were to prove him prophetic...