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...along she has talked an ambivalent line about 1984, advertising her "mixed emotions" about public life's invasion of privacy. But today the emphasis is different. Her large hazel eyes grow even wider when she talks about how much "Ronnie" likes his work: "Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes-absolutely, he is enjoying himself!" Her own satisfaction in the White House was slower in coming. "It took me a while to get into it. And, oh, everything was delayed-insofar as getting into it-because of the shooting. So maybe I was a late bloomer...
...Wider enforcement of the policy on serving alcohol at College-wide parties will result in the banning of alcohol from House functions this weekend. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said this week...
...have a navy. Your nation depends on the outside world for most of its raw materials and commerce. Your strongest ally, the United States, under whose protection your people were able to build the most efficient and productive economy in the world, has gradually taken on larger and wider responsibilities in other parts of the world. In recent years the Americans have asked your country to make a relatively large increase in defense spending, something you've been able to avoid until now. To top it all off, an airplane massacre has provided an uncomfortably close--and particularly bloody--reminder...
...urge for self-destruction has not so characterized the period as the wider compulsions of experimentation and free expression, almost a motor reflex to lurch in new directions. In the years immediately following World War I, Gertrude Stein was offering as much challenge as pity when she branded Hemingway and his contemporaries as the "lost generation." Hemingway took to the bullring, Fitzgerald to the dance floor, where much of his nation joined him. Like Gatsby, most people "believed in the green light" at the end of the dock, despite the disillusionment and damnation around them...
...issues (abortion, middle wage, tuition tax credit, crime, etc.) and the diversity of political leadership. Until the middle 1970s Afro-American politics displayed much uniformity in public policy attitudes and the character of political leadership. Since then growing diversification has evolved in these areas of Black politics, requiring a wider range of political ties...