Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Rosovsky is a confident man. Word has it that under his three-year tutelage, the Faculty is running extraordinarily smoothly, rationally and with what little dirty laundry there is carefully circumscribed and tagged 'for internal consumption only.' Rosovsky has, in a sense, accomplished what many considered a Herculean task: in the wake of the '60s tumult, during which the administration came to personify evil, he has, according to one dean, "restored the trust of the Faculty, reestablished the joint desire of the dean and the Faculty to get things done." His moderately conservative image and politics have been forgotten...
...corporations to comply with international embargoes on trade with the two embattled minority regimes, and on the South African government to abandon its rule in the immediate future, black nations will know the U.S. retains its generally racist and opportunistic perspective toward Africa and toward the Third Word as a whole...
...Mullen's struggle, which soon consumed their lives, and reminds us of the horror of the Vietnam years. He quotes at length from the cold government form letters which responded with hazy platitudes to the Mullens' anguish. At one point, Peg resorted to a dictionary to look up the word "prolong"; she was trying to determine how long it took Michael...
...BLACK SOLDIER who was in the trench next to Michael when he was killed wrote to the Mullens and gave them insight into their son's character. "I was the only Black in our squad," Private Willard Polk from Detroit wrote, "and I can honestly say I heard the word Nigger enough to last me a lifetime. You see, I could talk with Michael, he didn't care if you was Black or White. He was a good guy and we both had a great deal of respect for each other...
...purgatory" because "you seldom see anything-either too many people or too many press." With her husband Mark Phillips, she enjoyed visiting the U.S. in 1975, "but always in someone's private house or garden. They [the Americans] were very generous -or, to use an old-fashioned word, discreet." However, what she dislikes most, says Britain's reining princess, is being watched "when I'm having the most awful row with my horse...