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...didn't attack the Cuban areas of town, because that, people feel, might have sparked a street war. You can still walk around Key Biscayne or the old sections of downtown Miami or Miami Beach and sense, if you look at the old, somehow more tropical building from the 1920s that brought people down here a long time ago. But afterwards you will always feel that Miami lost its innocence along the way, somehow sold its soul for the sake of prosperity...
...spiritual inflation that has for a while distorted the myth. Says Diplomatic Historian Walter LaFeber: "We're getting back to a period where American power, and our view of that power, and our view of American history, is returning to normal, returning to what it was in the 1920s and 1930s, when I think we had a much more realistic view of what the possibilities of America...
...Borg's method was considered idiosyncratic, a stylistic dead end. For that matter, topspin was viewed as the last refuge of Bobby Riggs trying to win a bet. The patient base-line game has rarely been seen since Jean-RenéLacoste was outfoxing stronger foes in the 1920s. All the elements were there, but the mix awaited a slight Swedish boy and a train of serendipitous events...
...upcoming elite on the basis of education and other significant data. These show that the new leaders will be better schooled than the old rulers, some of whom, like Kirilenko, had no real college education. Others, like Brezhnev, attended the vocational colleges that were characteristic of the 1920s and 1930s. Since the younger men began their careers around the time of Stalin's death in 1953, they are likely to be less fearful and more self-assertive than their predecessors, whose lives were under constant threat from the paranoid dictator. Nearly all the newcomers will have had more exposure...
Considering the fact that the 1917 Revolution was dedicated to the destruction of religion, the present standoff is something of a triumph for Orthodoxy.* The early Bolshevik regime confiscated church lands and abolished religious influence in schools. Intense atheism campaigns in the 1920s and '30s led to the imprisonment and death of thousands of priests and the desecration of countless churches. In the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, workers boasted that they burned 20,000 icons in socialist competition. By 1939, when Stalin signed his pact with Hitler, the Russian Orthodox Church had only 100 or so churches open throughout...