Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stand in favor of active government makes no impact, because Cuomo never works through the practical arguments of why we should accept liberalism or what exactly his version of liberalism means beyond welfare politics. Ronald Reagan has emphatically shown that liberalism does not cut the mustard politically in the '80s, but Cuomo doesn't go beyond lofty rhetoric in refuting this limited vision...
...written, following Wilson's celebrated Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. (He later focused on the most controversial aspect of his theory, human sociobiology, in On Human Nature.) Biologists immediately praised the work as an integration of evolutionary biology and anthropology. Sociobiology came into vogue in the late 70s and early 80s, when it was used as a basis for arguments in fields as diverse as economics and political science...
...80s, the author is more relaxed and rueful about the previous decade or so. The material is so firmly under control that only a few strokes-Frances Landau's "slightly hyperthyroid face," Paul Christian's saying, "Sorry, I've made other plans" to people wishing him a nice day-are needed to fill out a character. One is left to ponder why Didion nudges the reader so, insisting that her story keeps getting away from her. The truth may be that she is reluctant to let go of it, and of times that were full of imaginative...
...80s-Style...
...year-old male virgin and proud of it. The catchword for the '80s may be intimacy, but I wonder what ever happened to good old-fashioned love and sacrifice. We should concentrate on loving one another without attaching carnality to every relationship...