Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite long, thorough works like The Age of Jackson and The Age of Roosevelt, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 69, appears particularly at ease in the short, stylish form of the essay, as exemplified by the 14 elegant pieces that make up The Cycles of American History...
Much of a reader's pleasure lies in the urbanity with which Schlesinger rebuts received wisdom, as when in three crisp sentences he demolishes the ruling cliche of '80s politics: "Ronald Reagan is cited as the inevitable product of the television age. But Reagan, one surmises, would have been equally successful in the age of radio, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, or in the age of newsreels, like Warren G. Harding, or in the age of steel engravings and the penny press, like Franklin Pierce. Presidential candidates in the television era -- Johnson, Nixon, Humphrey, McGovern, Ford, Carter, Mondale -- hardly constitute...
...age of Boesky threatened to close with a bang rather than a whimper. Process servers working for both the SEC and the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan had delivered subpoenas to at least a dozen important figures in the stock-trading pantheon. The subpoenas did not imply guilt on the part of those who got them, but requested information about any dealings and relationships with Boesky. Among those said to have received the documents...
...break ground till I got the actual o.k. from the White House, but that six feet on a side sounded plenty roomy enough. The oldest of the four kids in the family was only 12, and six feet should be plenty long enough for a kid that age to stretch...
...lights have gone out," was deceptive. In a political and diplomatic career that spanned the first four decades of Soviet history, Molotov earned the sobriquets "Old Stone Bottom" and "Mr. Iron Pants" from those who witnessed his legendary staying power at the negotiating table. Before his death at age 96, the loyal lieutenant and unquestioning henchman of Joseph Stalin had managed to hold out long enough to enjoy a bittersweet official rehabilitation in 1984 as one of the last survivors of the band of revolutionaries who created the world's first Communist state...