Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FASTEN SEAT BELTS PLEASE. The light blinks on overhead, we sink into our seats and careen off into the wild blue '80s. And it becomes harder and harder to analyze and thus understand the slothful indulgences and psychotic tendencies of that great unruly beast, the American Imperium. Our best writers have tried--and mostly failed--Pynchon, with the wondrous Gravity's Rainbow, a critical mass of incendiary pages, and McGuane, with his taut vision of love and death in the Florida Keys, 92 in the Shade. No wonder there is so much yearning for that time of the superego...
...Kennedys reflects for a moment, takes the large, unlovely cigar away from his mouth, and begins to speak. The Kennedy brothers are not easily imitated, he says. No other politician, except Teddy, can match the passion with which John and Bobby approached life, public and private. Maybe in the '80s a new breed of concerned and committed leaders will arise, in a new convulsion, with a new concern about the poor and the powerless in America. Maybe. But things just haven't been the same since that watershed year, 1968, when Bobby came so close, so very close...
...primary. Schlesinger says that in the '70s none of America's politicians--a terms he rarely uses to describe Bobby--are anything like Bobby was. None have the same commitment, the same commitment, the same concern for the "desolate and disenfranchised." Except, of course, Teddy. It is in the '80s Schlesinger predicts, that Bobby's ideas will be remembered and revived, as the country renews its concern for the havenots. It is in the '80s, he says, that Robert Kennedy and His Times will be studied more closely and respected more highly...
...alleged "steel crisis," the Wall St. Journal noted this past July 15 that the industry was operating at full capacity. Alperovitz even predicts the steel equivalent of a "refinery shortage" in the '80s, in which an artificially reduced number of steel plants will make a killing. The Carter Administration is doing its best to bring this about: Attorney-General Griffin Bell approved Lykes' salvage plan of merging with LTV Corporation, despite the ruling by his own Antitrust Division that the merger was illegal because LTV operates Jones and Laughlin Steel...
...aged warrior?who was probably in his early 80s, though his exact age was never known?had presided over the bloody transition to independence, and for 15 years had held his country's fractious tribes together. Under Mzee...