Word: sharper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Things are beautiful," exults House Speaker Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill. "Beautiful." Beauty, of course, is in the eye of the beholder, but no one has a sharper eye for political artistry than the Speaker. The long-expected, much-feared collision between Congress and the President had not occurred, and as Congress recessed for a month last week, relations between the two branches of Government had considerably warmed. Jimmy Carter was losing some but winning others. He was optimistic about the prospect of soon signing a new Panama Canal treaty,* which will face a tough fight on Capitol Hill...
Kahn's writing appears to have lost that fire of personal reminiscence in The Boys of Summer. No longer the nostalgic chronicler, the detached Kahn is drier, less compelling. But that is not enough to kill the book; indeed, it only makes it easier for Kahn to create sharper, less biased portraits where once he had to struggle against the hazy aura of youthful hero worship...
...rode the Spirit of St. Louis on the updrafts of the future, but in many ways he was one of the last individualists. Even in the '20s, he represented a kind of nostalgia. In an era of Teapot Dome and bathtub gin, he seemed to Americans a cleaner, sharper version of themselves, as bright as a new silver dollar, still inventive and vigorous. If, as Historian Frederick Jackson Turner said, the U.S. ran out of frontier in 1890, Lindbergh opened a new frontier in the air - the U.S. arcing back in triumph to its European origins...
...almost makes you want to bag the excruciatingly long seasons of the NBA and the NHL completely, and just get right down to the playoffs, when people seem to move faster, referees seem to be sharper, and exciting games come in bunches...
...grandmammy or a granddaddy can do for a child that no one else can. It's sort of like Stardust?the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children are a little sharper for the lack of it." The universal appeal of Roots, he concludes, is based on the average American's longing for a sense of heritage...