Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation exists in Chicago. A Black man clearly is at the head of the Democratic Party in Chicago. The question is whether the old machine style of powersharing between different ethnic voting blocks will work to keep the city at political peace or whether age-old racial divisions will prove too strong. Will racial prejudice in ethnic neighborhoods--spurred on by the baiting rhetoric of people like Vrdolyak who has begun to reach for the Republicans in neighborhoods he used to wardheel as a Democrat--make a white-Black sharing of power impossible as long as the Blacks are dominant...
...they seldom come to "Washington") because of their longstanding interest in the machinery of government. They come because their parents are darlings of the local Congressman's PAC. And they come on pilgrimage to Georgetown, where interns now mourn the passing of the 18-year-old drinking age. (Thank God, though, for Santa's beneficent grandfather...
...cause that animated Hart's passions during the Nightline broadcast $ is one he is singularly ill equipped to champion: the right of privacy of public officials. What Hart never addressed is the enigma that always surrounded his presidential ambitions: his stubborn refusal to understand that in a nuclear age voters are entitled to glimpse what lies within the psyche of a man who aspires to the White House...
DESIGN: This just may be a golden age for Japan' s architects and graphic artists...
...first hit song, Swanee, sell more than a million copies, wrote for Broadway and symphony orchestras and performed Rhapsody in Blue to the applause of Rachmaninoff and Stokowski, all before his 30th birthday. He was planning further classical compositions when he died of a brain tumor at the age of 38 in 1937. Would Gershwin's later music have made its way into the standard American repertory along with the works of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber? Or would he have been considered an overreacher whose notes never quite shook off the reverberations of Tin Pan Alley...