Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Robertson, who commanded the Infantry Brigade of the Riverine Force on the Giao Thong the night of Compella's death, is retired at Sea Island, Ga., living gently off his pension and his wife's inheritance. His mind is free to pursue W.H. Auden and Thomas Love Peacock, but his soul, forged at West Point, still hears distant thunder. "Leadership is never good when it is self-conscious," he says. "The President should respond instinctively to events -but the instinct is really educated intellection, and it has to be harnessed to a natural appetite for decision...
...over their shoulders. A few even sported gleaming Soviet medals on their breast. Startled whites stared in anxious silence or menacingly shook their fists as they passed by. But in the villages and urban townships, thousands of Rhodesian blacks gleefully hailed their return with an exultant chant: "Zimbabwe, we love...
...resident gamekeeper through thickets filled with deer and foxes. She went on to study widely-music, dressmaking, metal crafts and premedical subjects-and in 1935 was married to an Austrian businessman. But two years later she went off on vacation to Kenya where, she recalled later, she "fell in love with this wonderful country," and stayed. A second marriage, to Botanist Peter Bally, foundered in 1944 on safari, when Joy met a British-Irish game warden named George Adamson. They were married later that same year...
...lives, we perceived the future as an enemy rather than as a source of unbounded optimism. Whether the decline in standards reflected the national malaise or artists' narcissism, it should have been a greater cause for concern. It was not because so many people actually liked Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby" and because art critics were overwhelmed to see the masses flocking to such "blockbuster" exhibitions as Treasures of Tutankhamon and Splendor of Dresden. Few critics concerned themselves with whether these new-found museum visitors were learning anything significant about art history at these shows...
...World According to Garp by John Irving: an explosive tragicomedy about feminism and fatherly love...