Word: guardedness
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At week's end official Washington remained uncharacteristically closemouthed about Weir's unexpected release. "We don't want to do or say anything that could disrupt the active diplomatic process," said a State Department official. "We are delighted Rev. Weir is out, but seven is the number we are looking...
Amis' routine back in London has settled down after some turbulent times. "My second wife (Author Elizabeth Jane Howard) walked out on me about five years ago," he says, adding "thank God. I didn't say thank God then, of course, but I do now." He currently shares a house...
Soviet workers, from pipefitters to Politburo members, receive state- subsidized vacations that differ as dramatically as the jobs they perform. Prominent members of the Communist Party and leading scientists luxuriate in secluded, heavily guarded mansions, supplied courtesy of the state. Even second-rank officials usually have a country house at...
WITH THE SHOW'S refreshing absence of shrillness, we see the part of Latin America's essence that is contrast: between the land's vast indifference and the struggle to live within it meaningfully between guarded privilege and persistent hardship.
Both magazines met with a lukewarm response when they tried to sell syndication rights to U.S. television networks for up to $600,000. After the news conference in Sao Paulo, moreover, Menachem Russek, the retired head of an Israeli police anti-Nazi unit, confessed that he was "not angry but...