Word: actuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story is helped greatly by the chapter notes in the back of the book. It is clear from these notes that Brinkley put a lot of reporting energy into his first novel--each of the events in his book are based on slightly altered historical information or on actual government proposals and contingency plans...
...Michigan conceded that he "was new to the law." A practicing attorney for only two years, he had never tried a case, written a brief or argued an appeal. Most damaging, Lucas displayed a woeful ignorance of basic civil rights issues. Asked about the distinction between de facto (actual) and de jure (legal) segregation, Lucas drew a blank. "If it had been a white man who had been nominated who had the same background," said Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin, "he wouldn't have gotten anywhere. I think the fact that Mr. Lucas was black caused more consideration to be given...
When David Henry Hwang was a student at Stanford University, he and fellow residents of the "Asian-American theme dorm" used to refer derisively to any female peer who seemed overly deferential, too traditionally feminine, as "doing a Butterfly." Hwang, for one, had no actual complaint against Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly. In fact, he had never seen or even heard it. But what he had gleaned of the plot -- about a Japanese girl who kills herself for love of a faithless American sailor -- summed up for him many of the stereotypes Westerners imposed on Orientals...
...second-ranking diplomat in the Vienna embassy, including a ten-month stint as charge, or acting ambassador, Bloch had access to U.S. diplomatic traffic on East European and Soviet issues as well as worldwide regional reports. He was aware of CIA activities, if not the names of actual agents, in one of the world's most active intelligence arenas, the Austrian capital. As one of eleven office directors in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs in Washington, Bloch also had access to the National Intelligence Daily, a highly classified summary...
...deal with the surging tide of nationalism; he has had trouble riding that particular wave in recent months. While Baltic representatives acknowledged that their economies could not yet survive under full independence, some of the more extreme Baltic nationalists hope last week's action will ultimately lead to actual secession from the Soviet Union. The Supreme Soviet seems powerfully aware of the danger. Although the enabling laws granting autonomy to the republics will not be submitted to the Parliament until October, other aggrieved national groups are already eyeing the same reward. Delegates from the Ukraine have expressed interest...