Word: reading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I read that Ruggero Raimondi's Don Giovanni was passionless, I, as one of many whose bones turned to water watching his performance, knew the reviewer...
...capsule. The McNulta in question, a Bloomington man, was a Civil War general in the 94th Illinois Volunteers. The time capsule was an etched glass bottle, seven inches high and sealed with a broken stopper, containing several mysterious thin packages wrapped in cloth. A notification tucked into its base read: "Souvenirs of the meeting of the Society of the Army of Tennessee. Held at Chicago November 1879. To be kept unopened for 100 years...
...made brigadier general in four years. But in 1874 he was defeated for reelection to the U.S. Congress by Adlai Stevenson (Adlai Stevenson the first, people stress in McLean County, meaning the one who went on to become Vice President under Grover Cleveland from 1893 to 1897). McNulta read law, as was the go-getter's custom, and almost certainly profited by his duties as appointed receiver for an extraordinary number of bankrupt railroads. He was a man of his time and place, and he thought in terms of securing the future...
...Avenue, represented a unique and hopeful experiment in China's tightly controlled society. It was a place where everyone from political critics to whimsical poets could paste up wall posters, which are protected by China's 1978 constitution. Thousands of people sometimes came to the wall to read the patchwork quilt of personal grievances, sharply worded essays demanding more freedom, and short stories and poems. Last week the Municipal Revolutionary Committee of Peking, clearly acting at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, issued a strict prohibition of all posters at the original site of democracy wall, thus...
Reporters admire the way Carter frankly admits it when he either does not know something or simply does not want to answer a question. They also appreciate his guarded guidance when they are on the right track but he cannot officially elaborate. "Read your own work," he may say, or "I don't have any trouble with that." Says Carter's boss, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance: "Hodding performs one of the most difficult tasks in Government with mastery. In Hodding's job the difference between the right word and the almost right word, as Mark Twain...