Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALTHOUGH MATUSOW does not specifically address the point, Kennedy's experience reflected both the limitations and the strengths of liberalism in the period. The attempt at reform was genuine, but the execution was conventional and doomed to failure Kennedy's most idealistic programs, shepherded through Congress by Lyndon Johnson in the mid-'60s, couldn't overcome the status...
...kind of thing that attracts outsiders to the seminars. As Phyllis Cartwright, director of Fort Lauderdale's Main Library, put it, "People enjoy these seminars because they can hear authors discuss their feelings, what causes them to write." Or as Novelist Anne Bernays (The Address Book), who came from Boston to speak at lunch, said, "People think if they can touch and talk to an author, they will absorb the magic, be able to do it themselves. That's why they always ask technical questions like 'Do you use a pencil...
...America, Stand Tall" State of the Union Address had left any doubt, President Reagan this week set the New Right's collective mind at rest with his announcement that he would seek reelection. We're glad...
...covered by the national media where these same views are explained and propounded daily? And, for the record: at no point was Weinberger effectively prevented from speaking. In fact, he ultimately delivered his text and everyone in the audience could hear it. He had the use of a public address system; the protesters...
...serious White House attack on budget shortfalls will wait until after the election. In the State of the Union address, Reagan intends to repeat his long-held view that deficits must eventually be cut by drastic reductions in Government spending. In the budget, however, he will propose only minor changes that net out to a reduction in planned outlays of a piddling $4 billion, or less than two-thirds of 1 % of nonmilitary spending. Among other things, the Administration has dropped a proposal to make Medicare patients pay more of the early costs of hospitalization in return for Government assumption...