Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Reagan's father (Jack) observed to Mr. Reagan's mother (Nelle) and brother (Moon) that baby Ronald looked like "a fat Dutchman." Mr. Reagan readily took to his nickname because he felt that Ronald was "a bit on the sissy side." So, should we call him Dutch? Dutch and Mommie? Granted, this is not the sort of problem that has the country's big thinkers in a tizzy, but perhaps nicknames count for more than they appear to. Harry Truman was lucky enough to have his given name sound like a nickname, so as President...
...Penguin Book of Women Poets and The Other Voice: Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry in Translation. The editors have devoted several pages to such major figures as Enheduanna (c. 2300 B.C.), the first writer in history, male or female, whose work has been preserved. A Sumerian moon priestess, she composed incantations that still resonate in the present. Considerable space has also been given to the dazzling Mexican poet of the Spanish Golden Age, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, as well as to America's incomparable Emily Dickinson. Willis Barnstone's rendering...
...aura of cheerful optimism, manipulate symbols and establish smooth personal relations with allies and adversaries is a vital asset for a President. Ronald Reagan proved last week that he possesses it in abundance, and he will surely need it in the battles that lie ahead when the honey moon is over...
...controlled fusion, a key energy hope for the future. Perhaps the most far-reaching application involves the space colonization ideas of Princeton Physicist Gerard O'Neill. He and some colleagues at M.I.T. are already building models of kindred electromagnetic launchers that they believe could be assembled on the moon and used to propel tons of lunar ores into space for construction of solar-powered space habitats...
They met on a cold, damp Venetian morning, the wild ducks flying overhead. The hunter was 49, married, famous. The girl was 18, a dark Leonardesque virgin. "I love you more than the moon and the sky," he would later write her. "Daughter, how complicated can life be?" Very, she would answer: "I tried to remain on the razor's edge, because had I asked, you would have thrown yourself from a wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some...