Word: albert
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...fleet calls at bases around the rim of the Indian Ocean, including an anchorage on the island of Socotra in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden. The Soviets are currently seeking permission to build a base in the Seychelles, 1,200 miles west of Diego Garcia, though President Albert Rene insists he will not grant...
...august dealer-photographer Alfred Stieglitz gave Hartley his first one-man show at his famed 291 [Fifth Avenue] Gallery. To his delight. Hartley suddenly found himself immersed in the Stieglitz circle. But his most emotional experience was his discovery of Albert Pinkham Ryder. "I was a convert to the field of imagination into which I was born," he wrote. "I had been thrown back into the body and being of my own country...
...which he calls "a combination of editorial, crank letter and private meditation." A onetime U.S. Senate page and Harvard English major, he came to the magazine in 1965 from the Washington Star. He has a bit of family history on his office wall: an old photo of Great-Grandfather Albert Morrow, a 19th century U.S. Cavalry officer. The younger Morrow's meditation on the rediscovery of America appears in the Nation section, but he brings to the subject the same subtlety, wit and fascination with new concepts that animate his Essays. Says Morrow: "For me, ideas possess both drama...
...with Washington bureaus, the Journal's contingent is second largest, behind the New York Times. In the capital, notes TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress, it is regarded as one of the top three, along with the Times and the Los Angeles Times. Specialists, such as James M. Perry and Albert R. Hunt (politics), Dennis Farney (Congress), Richard J. Levine (economics), Kenneth H. Bacon (defense) and Karen Elliott House (foreign affairs), are pre-eminent in their fields...
Once he establishes this premise, Higgins keeps things moving. Of course, Mikali will run afoul of the one man capable of discovering his double life. Of course, these adversaries will stage their final showdown on the occasion of Mikali's greatest triumph, a concert in London's Albert Hall. The plot, as formally predictable as a minuet, diverts without disturbing. Higgins' prose is simple to the point of sketchiness. Sentences lack verbs-a lot of sentences. Clichés nudge the brain along well-worn paths: "That sixth sense that had kept him alive for so long...