Word: hitherto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...affairs of Afghanistan." In a direct attack on Jimmy Carter, he declared: "The anti-Soviet hysteria was needed for somebody riding the crest of this wave to win the presidential election in the autumn." But then, in what may have been a subtle deviation from the Kremlin's hitherto intransigent line, Brezhnev made the point that the Soviets would withdraw their troops when outside interference is "permanently terminated...
...have to operate under market conditions. Last year government payments for public sector deficits accounted for one-third of the national budget and were a major factor in the soaring inflation rate. To raise foreign exchange, eliminate shortages and speed up both production and investment, the Premier opened up hitherto closed sectors of the economy to foreign investors with a built-in guarantee against nationalization. The Turkish petroleum company lost its exclusive exploration rights, and restrictions against branch offices for foreign banks were lifted...
Constitutionally protected grossness-edible underwear, the vibrators in the drugstore window, massage parlors, sex merchandised in its pervasive richness-has spread the pornographic spirit widely. The Twelfth Night Masque, the oldest private subscription ball in Chicago and hitherto a bastion of Midwestern decorum, has suffered a recent rash of crudity. Last year some guests showed up at the ball dressed as hemorrhoids when President Carter was so afflicted; two years before, when the masque theme was "The Father of Our Country," a number of Lake Shore socialites appeared as penises or sperm. No one proposes calling out a SWAT team...
Perhaps because so many hitherto unquestioned taboos were lifted-or at least called into question--during that decade, it seems a watershed dividing the mores, tastes and, inevitably, the arts of a previous generation from those of our own. The Beatles revolutionized popular music, lifting rock from an adolescent eccentricity to a viable music from still growing, albeit spasmodically, after 25 years. Hair, despite artistic shortcomings, legitimized nudity on stage, previously only experimented with in partial or shrouded conditions to insure standards of "redeeming artistic value." Television asserted itself, legitimately or not, in our living rooms, raising a generation...