Word: adrift
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...fight. It is not a matter of being "kinder and gentler" but smarter and more imaginative. At present, the challenge is best met by Jack Kemp and Co., who are developing new forms of interaction between the public and private spheres, more individual autonomy without setting the individual adrift. That is, of course, the "New Paradigm" (but won't somebody please invent a less clunky label...
...Times Literary Supplement. Will the same be said of Reaganism? Certainly Reagan's reputation, like Thatcher's, is in eclipse at the moment. But Reagan's decline may be an extreme reaction, prompted by this year's mysteriously sour mood. Ending the cold war has left Americans adrift. Anticommunism imposed an ordinating principle on the government's many scattered activities. Without that principle, the country seems disoriented. The nation's problems are evident, but Reagan's denigration of government (for all uses but opposing communists) reduced any hope of dealing with the situation. If government, as Reagan liked...
...Game 5, for example, Fischer was adrift, wandering eyeless about the board. His rook moves two squares -- then, on the next move, back one. (Like gaining 8 yds. on first down, then voluntarily taking a 4-yd. loss on second.) A bishop thrusts sharply across the board -- to a useless perch at the edge of play. "What was his ((bishop)) supposed to be aiming for?" asked a bewildered Robert Byrne in the New York Times. A good question made poignant by the source. Thirty years ago, Fischer defeated Byrne in a win so beautiful it was once described as "more...
...also where we hope to go next. The nice girls adrift in Carpenter's earlier ballads (When She's Gone, Middle Ground) often have the single-white- female blues, and there's a fine one here: He Thinks He'll Keep Her, a sarcastic soft rocker about a perfect wife ("Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design/ Spit and polish 'til it shines") who walks out on her husband only to find herself ignored and abused in a menial job. But Carpenter surely knows that thirtysomething angst is just half the story; a woman is not only...
...Diego harbor, where the climate is warmer and where the islanders can paddle onshore to catch a movie or a meal at McDonald's. Furthermore, these international criminals say that if their ultimatums are not met within three days, Mrs. Bush, your wife of 47 years, will be set adrift on the Bering Strait in a rubber dinghy with nothing to sustain her but some frozen whale blubber and a complete set of Jane Fonda exercise cassettes. What would be your response? Would you put your arm around...