Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Instead of dismissing Solzhenitsyn again as a paranoid alarmist, we Americans must open our eyes, harden our bodies and brace ourselves for confrontation...
...away again at all his old targets with stimulating vigor: "There is enough fat in the Federal Government that if you rendered it, there would be enough soap to wash the whole world." Some 22 position papers designed to portray Reagan as a positive thinker were filed and forgotten. Instead, Reagan presented once again his nostalgic vision of a day still to be recaptured, when the individual was great and the Government small, the U.S. flag and dollar respected everywhere...
...Testifying before Congress last week, Defense Secretary Harold Brown said that the insurgents may well be getting arms from Pakistan. Brown refused to confirm or deny that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in that traffic, as Moscow has charged. The Administration instead pointed out at week's end that the much publicized Soviet brigade in Cuba had resumed training exercises; a State Department spokesman said that the brigade "remains a serious source of concern...
Part of the talking-ape lore may come from the subjectivity of researchers. The Sebeoks note that when Koko is asked to give the sign for drink and makes the proper gesture but touches her ear instead of her mouth, Psychologist Patterson assumes not that the gorilla has made a mistake but that it is joking. If Koko smiles when asked to frown, she is displaying a "grasp of opposites." Say the Sebeoks: "Real breakthroughs in man-ape communication are the stuff of fiction...
Freedom from convention is the negligee to Mamet's play, slipped on under a suit of comedy but never fully revealed. Instead Bernie and Danny, Deborah and Joan remain caught in a sexual charade that is hopelessly--and hilariously--perverse...