Word: evening
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...circuits of the historical imagination have been overloaded anyway. The end of the cold war, the "peace dividend," even the "end of history," as announced by one thinker -- all these came tumbling by chaotically, and then immediately darker themes set in: recession and the apocalyptic clouds in the gulf...
...been largely a matter of restructuring a ruin, a contradiction in terms that makes for a sorry spectacle. Yet the world is, as never before, invited to watch. Glasnost has led to a kind of reverse, and perverse, Potemkinism, a post-Soviet tendency to portray the situation as even worse than...
...Even those few of Gorbachev's countrymen who have a kind word for him usually qualify it with some comment to the effect that he is yesterday's man. As usual, they exaggerate. But even if Gorbachev is, before our eyes, passing into history, he can be consoled by the company he will keep...
...will Estonia, Latvia, Georgia and the rest. But even if Gorbachev, like Bolivar, fails as a unifier, he too will be remembered above all as a liberator...
...adding, "He will be a superb leader of this country." She had good reason for ebullience. Forced out of office by her own party the week before, Thatcher saw her protege chosen as Prime Minister, ensuring that the basic tenets of Thatcherism would continue to set the national agenda even after she stepped down...