Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NATION Defeat The U.S. and its allies stood at the abyss of disaster. The Chinese Communists, pouring across the Manchurian border, had smashed the U.N. army, this week were clawing forward to pursue and destroy its still-organized fragments. Caught in the desperate retreat were 140,000 American troops, the flower of the U.S. Army-almost the whole effective Army...
...ABYSS DEEP ENOUGH: LETTERS OF HEINRICH VON KLEIST, WITH A SELECTION OF ESSAYS AND ANECDOTES; Dutton; 297pages; $16.95 PLAYS by Heinrich von Kleist; Continuum; 341 pages...
Kleist's letters, collected in An Abyss Deep Enough, augment this sense of modernity: "Heaven is pleased to grant desires that comply with its purpose, why then must it be we who are excluded from its favor?" It is no wonder that Kafka came to regard Kleist's writings as "the works of a master"; they anticipate The Castle by a century...
...most prophetic tendencies, from a balance of terror: the riddle of God on one side, the knowledge of man on the other. Brown enlivens his text with quotes, none more pertinent than Wiesel's self-analysis: "When you live on the edge of the mountain, you see the abyss, but you also see very far." Brown sees almost as far, but then he is standing on a monument...
...realities of Reagan's budget are beginning to appear, and the American people are being faced with the realization the Swedes had last year: Sometimes the solution is worse than the problem. Like Falldin, Reagan is trapped between the firm, if unrealistic, demands of his conservative backers and the abyss of the national budget. He cannot compromise too far; he can only hope that by some miracle, supply-side economics will begin to work. Otherwise, he will learn a simple lesson: Voters are ready to give new things a try, but lose their nerve swiftly. When an experiment fails...