Word: pantheon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pantheon; 478 pages...
...absence of national policies to help working mothers reflects traditional American attitudes: old-fashioned motherhood has stood right up there with the flag and apple pie in the pantheon of American ideals. To some people day-care centers, particularly government-sponsored ones, threaten family values; they seem a step on the slippery slope toward an Orwellian socialist nightmare. But such abstract concerns have largely receded as the very concrete need for child care is confronted by people from all walks of life...
Thirty minutes later--suspiciously good time for an eleven-year-old on foot, Dewitt realized--Dewitt Jr. returned clutching one of the most precious prints in the pantheon of film humour, a rare jewel by the Leonardo da Vinci of screen guffaws, Preston Sturges. Dewitt felt a rush of parental pride...
...ugly American," plucked from her Kansas home to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Rumania. Mary attempts to build bridges with the Communists, but "the gods," malevolent figures who use code names like Odin, Balder and Thor, have other plans. Whether agents of decency can triumph over the pantheon is, of course, never in question. The Sheldon brand name guarantees a predictable mix of global gore and paperback psychopathology. Goodness has nothing to do with...
...Boesky threatened to close with a bang rather than a whimper. Process servers working for both the SEC and the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan had delivered subpoenas to at least a dozen important figures in the stock-trading pantheon. The subpoenas did not imply guilt on the part of those who got them, but requested information about any dealings and relationships with Boesky. Among those said to have received the documents...