Word: umbrella
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing career--putting together words, glorious words and making a veritable film of prose. The novel has been a long-time coming, more than 20 years of flirting with fiction, taking the truth and transforming it into social fairy tales, but always publishing under the realistically lucid umbrella of fact. The result of years with a notebook out there in the jungles of real life, this novel--Bonfire of the Vanities--purports to lend everything a purpose and win the writer a one-way ticket through the annals of literary history. Tom Wolfe has published his first Novel...
Black actors and directors have created their own support network by forming Black CAST, a student umbrella organization and resource group for Black student actors and directors. But Black CAST has been mostly dormant for the past two years, producing only one show in that time. Walker, who served as treasurer last year, says the group suffered from "administrative problems...
Grosz is virtually guaranteed support from the eleven-member Politburo, the party's top decision-making body, where his allies are in the majority. Imre Pozsgay, 54, the outspoken head of the People's Patriotic Front, a Communist- led umbrella organization of some 100 special-interest groups, and Reszo Nyers, 65, Hungary's most prominent reform economist, were among those elected to the Politburo during the same party conference that ousted Kadar...
...University can therefore take the lead in challenging the Administration's policies. "It's terribly important that there be institutions like Harvard and Stanford to set a clear precedent for other universities," says Dr. Robert M. Rosenzweig, President of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an umbrella group that represents the nation's 54 major research universities. "It's really important that institutions be clear about these policies...
...Shultz's proposals, had fresh reason to be concerned last week. Five days before the Secretary of State left Washington, he met for 90 minutes with two Palestinian-Americans. Both are members of the Palestine National Council, a parliament-in-exile with some 400 members that serves as an umbrella organization for the P.L.O. as well as for nonmilitary Palestinian institutions...