Word: boundless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hsiao, 58, the eldest of the Nieman fellows this year, says that he was continually asked in China "why do you want to go abroad, you're so old?" He laughs and says, "I think knowledge is boundless...I always look forward and have no regrets about the past." Just as history has bright and dark periods, his personal experiences are good and bad, he says, "but we always believe in our future...
Silicon Valley is the Yuppie stronghold, and the computer boom has contributed significantly to the renewed faith in American ingenuity and, more broadly, in the American dream of boundless opportunity. The country's economic future, when viewed through a silvery high-tech scrim, does indeed look exciting. Moreover, the 21st century seems to be mingling with the 19th: entrepreneurism, led by the high-tech vanguard, has been imbued with a quasipatriotic urgency...
...Democrats: the beginning of at least a decade of party dominance. They feel so confident that they plan to play it safe, to ride the current wave of economic prosperity and renewed patriotism. Reagan's speeches are full of phrases like "the surging spirit of boundless opportunity." His television ads, beginning this week, will be "soft"−evocations of the American spirit, not discussions of substantive issues. Reagan himself will try to appear "presidential," to float above political acrimony. He does not even mention his opponent by name. Asked why not by reporters, Reagan loftily replied, "Why should...
...failed-musician Black father whose frustration leads him to beat his white wife viciously. When Apollonia announces that she plans to accept a place in Morris's band, the Kid slaps her, and she walks out--as do the girls in his band, tired of the Kid's boundless megalomania--all to the tune of "When Doves Cry." The crisis is heightened by the Kid's father's suicide attempt. The movie reaches its climax in a musical High Noon against Day and company--a battle that will seal the Kid's musical as well as personal future...
...attitude, through some error of temper, taste or tone, I have caused anyone discomfort, created pain or revived someone's fears, that was not my truest self.. . Please forgive me. Charge it to my head... so limited in its finitude; [not to] my heart, which is boundless in its love for the entire human family. I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant... Be patient. God is not finished with me yet." Some delegates shouted, "Jesse! Jesse!" Others wept. Many did both...