Word: spotless
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...quiet. Horns are not allowed in Moscow, so the hum of traffic, as one would expect from a klaxon-less society, is occasionally punctuated by the shriek of rubber tires under stress. Not a teen-ager anywhere. They are in the summer camps, we are told. The city is spotless and newly painted - a kind of Disneyland gilt. The Misha bear, with his Olympic-rings belt, smiles at one from everywhere. He began to get to me after a while - largely because of the mascot's eyes: astonished above the half-moon smile, they become the demented, loopy gaze...
...teachers, TIME correspondents fanned out across the country to interview interview educators, sit in classrooms and personally observe their subjects at work. New York Correspondent Dorothy Ferenbaugh found one dedicated teacher who inspires her pupils to respect not only learning but also cleanliness; she personally keeps her classroom spotless. Miami Bureau Chief Richard Woodbury suffered through sweltering days in a windowless classroom in Clearwater, Fla., with a high school teacher and his restless, apathetic students. As the teacher told Woodbury, "Now you can see why some days I ask, 'What am I beating my head against the wall...
...Soviet drive for domination cannot be blunted by what he calls "American purists who inspect the world with white gloves and disdain association with any but the spotless." Nixon feels it is imperative not to weaken our allies by insisting too rigidly on internal reforms, but he skips over the fact that a repressive regime may fall of its own weight. Part of the dilemma for the U.S. is to decide at what point an allied regime is still viable...