Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hidden Pills. Dismissed from his post as vice president and commander of the armed forces in the wake of the war, Amer was arrested last month with 50 other officers on charges of plotting against Nasser. As Nasser's semiofficial mouthpiece Al Ahram rather fancifully reported it, Amer had planned to seize command of Egyptian troops on the Suez Canal, demand full reinstatement for himself and the 800 officers who were arrested or sacked as part of Nasser's postwar effort to find a scapegoat for his shattering defeat. If Nasser refused, the story went, Amer would march...
Nonetheless, Milwaukee is a traditionally well-disciplined city, and the Negroes' legitimate complaints might well have been adjusted in the wake of the Inner Core's abortive riots last August. They were not, in large part, because a white Catholic priest insisted on militancy rather than mediation...
Diem's trust in Thieu was misplaced. Only eleven months later, the young colonel led one of the 5th Division's regiments in the coup against Diem. In the wake of Diem's overthrow, Thieu won his general's stars and the secretary-generalship of the junta that took over...
...humorous articles for assorted magazines. "And to brood on the one day off I take each month." Ken Purdy, who turns out 25 pieces a year, both fiction and nonfiction, says, "It's great not to be responsible to anyone, but then there are those mornings when you wake up at 3 a.m. and know you've had the last idea of your life." "You don't belong to anyone, and you can ski when you please," says Brock Brower, who writes about politics and literature with equal facility, "but you're always haunted...
Lionel Nowak, Bennington College music professor, owned no sculpture, but when he saw Tony Smith constructing his gangly Gracehoper-a title Smith lifted from Finnegans Wake-he commented, only half in jest, that it was just the thing for his backyard...