Word: pauling
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Modern Times by Paul Johnson (1983). The former editor of Britain's New Statesman has the crust and style to pinpoint evil in an age of moral relativism, and he is not talking about Gordon Gekko's affirmative views on a greedy decade. The villains are the tyrants of both the left and the right who have perpetrated outrages in the name of the modern secular state...
...Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1988). A passionate and painstaking reconstruction of the strange career of John Paul Vann, a U.S. proconsul in Viet Nam, that casts new light on the ambiguous nature of that tragic...
Despite these violent disagreements about the future, there is at least some agreement about the past decade. It began in a distinctly gloomy atmosphere known as stagflation: double-digit inflation combined with growth rates of 2% or less. Cigar-chomping Paul Volcker, then the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, is generally credited with breaking the inflation by reining in the money supply in 1980-81. That also touched off the worst recession of the postwar era, bringing unemployment rates of more than 10% (25% in some areas and industries). President Reagan helped end the downturn by cutting taxes...
Most Overdone Craze. Paul Prudhomme of K-Paul's restaurant in New Orleans, the globular Cajun chef, was the man responsible for a dish that eventually became too much of a good thing: blackened redfish, in which a fillet is dusted with spices and then seared on a red-hot iron skillet. Suddenly, chefs who had never been within light-years of a bayou were giving us blackened tuna, blackened swordfish, blackened bluefish, blackened scallops, blackened . . . burp...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R.Z. Sheppard, Frank Trippett...