Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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More important, the Soviets would be forced to take over Poland's enfeebled economy, a $21 billion hard-currency debt to the West and a mutinous population. All of these costs, as Secretary ol State Edmund Muskie noted last week, would be "taken out of the hides of the Soviet people." The low-keyed rumbles of discontent in the U.S.S.R. about deaths and injuries suffered by an invasion force of 85,000 in Afghanistan would grow far louder if Soviet troops were bloodied in a Polish occupation...
...been opened" in his talks with Ulster Secretary of State Humphrey Atkins. Most observers devoutly hoped so. If some room for compromise was not found, Northern Ireland, and perhaps England as well, seemed set for a Christmas season during which the message of peace and goodwill would be increasingly hard to hear...
Some of Lang's former students were quick to defend him. "I didn't think his class was too hard at all," says Julie Shapiro, who edits the Woodward High student newspaper. "Mr. Lang had us go over the readings line by line, and I think they added a lot to the course. Some kids hated the course in the beginning, but at the end they liked the work. He treated us like adults. He had standards...
This represents quite a change from the days when Buckley's hard-line intellectual journal was well to the right of the great majority of America's political thinkers. For years National Review did not even have the stimulation of any worthy competition. Says Buckley: "There was absolutely no journal of opinion for us types to write for. Over here [on the right] it was just plain Dry Gulch...
Something like an emotional equivalent of the back-to-basics movement in the schools has now swept quietly over vast sections of the American psyche. A sneaking preference for what once, generations ago, was called square has broken into the open. Certain values like stable family, satisfyingly useful hard work, competition and excellence have reappeared here and there: the moral equivalents of Bass Weejuns and button-down shirts. A cynic would say that the culture's manic quest for novelty has simply exhausted some of its adventurously kinky experiments (open marriage, bisexuality, a doctrinaire celibacy, banana smoking and roller...