Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comes to a subject as ineffable as the mood of America, sharp distinctions between public perception and palpable reality are not possible, and may be moot. "Sometimes I have to wonder whether the facts are really there," says Harvard University Theologian Harvey Cox, "or whether this is simply a note of wishful thinking. But the very fact that we would like things to be better is what's important...
...evangelist's words are likely to be heard by more than those who came to see him; surreptitious cassette recorders will doubtless give his sermons wide distribution among Soviets. Graham also took note of how difficult it is for Soviets to display their faith. In his usual appeal for public commitments to Jesus Christ, he asked his Baptist listeners in Leningrad to raise their hands. Despite the presence of KGB plainclothesmen with cameras, two dozen people did so. A parishioner later explained poignantly why more did not respond: "You Americans live in freedom. Our arms are always pressed down...
...eight-nation Asian tour, all seemed fine as two elephants tromboned a welcome, but then his musicians began raising a cacophony of complaints about the hotel accommodations. "Unbearable," screeched a violinist. "There are bugs in the bed," one musician whined. "And cockroaches," chimed in another. Mehta quieted the sour-note chorus by allowing a move to a more hospitable hostelry. In the end, though, the conductor heard the sweet sounds he had come for: the concert was greeted with thunderous applause...
...went lumbering along the sidelines throughout. The brand-new Lawrence A. Wien Stadium at Baker Field, all white and Columbia blue, almost sparkled in the sunshine. The assembled fans did their best to appear unimpressed, but the return of football to Manhattan after a 17-month absence put a note of hope into...
...policy is not to have a policy," John Quinn, its editorial director, says. But he urges his editors to pick columnists across a broad spectrum of views. Similarly, the Wall Street Journal, with the most rigidly polemical editorial page of any major paper, seeks to vary its Johnny-one-note tone by using some outside voices. Irving Kristol and Arthur Schlesinger are well-matched middleweights, but was Alexander Cockburn craftily picked for his left-wing pyrotechnics or as valid spokesman for a point of view...