Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three decades after Henry Luce slated him as heir apparent, Hedley Donovan still professes uncertainty as to what virtues the Time Inc. founder saw in deciding he would become (as he did from 1964 to 1979) the company's editor in chief. But readers of Donovan's urbane, frequently self-chiding memoir will be able to guess. He blended a heartland bourgeois regard for American values with a worldly disdain for puffery. He took pride in being able to change his mind -- notably, on Viet Nam and Richard Nixon. In chronicling his life from the rectitude of a Minnesota boyhood...
French analyst Dominique Moisi, co-founder of the Paris-based French Institute for International Relations, agreed. On recent visits to Moscow, he said, he was struck by gathering popular pessimism. Said Moisi: "The elite around Gorbachev sound like the aristocrats on the eve of the French Revolution. Even among the most devout Gorbachev supporters hopes have been replaced by fears...
...Soviet deputies met in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses before a giant statue of Soviet founder Vladimir I. Lenin. Gorbachev pressed the deputies toward a more organized approach to their session than the nationally televised free-for-all in May and June...
Many students yesterday were openly critical of CAR and its founder, James M. Harmon '93, for backing away from its original anti-randomization stance in favor of non-ordered choice...
...called second stage is marked by a discussion about "feminine values" and teaching men and male-dominated institutions to share them. "In the second stage," says Ann Lewis, a founder of the National Women's Political Caucus, "we will not enter the work force as imitators of men. We will not deny the fact that we have children and, yes, think about them during the day. Nor will we deny that we as society's caretakers have responsibility for elderly parents. We bring those values with...