Word: ages
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Raisa. Even in this semienlightened age, prominent women are somehow reduced to first names: Maggie, Cory, Nancy. Yet, despite her visibility, Raisa Gorbachev remains a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in sable. Is she the witty, cosmopolitan muse of glasnost, as some Westerners who have met her suggest? Or is she a hard-line ideologue, as others report? At a dinner with ^ the Reagans during the 1985 Geneva summit, Raisa launched into a lengthy and pedantic monologue on Soviet policy. After the Gorbachevs left, Nancy Reagan may have spoken for the other guests when she fumed, within hearing of then...
...extraordinary publishing enterprises greet each other this month, just as their subjects did more than 80 years ago. The final entries in George Bernard Shaw's four-volume, 76-year-long correspondence present the master playwright bombinating into old age, dispensing unsolicited advice on every aspect of modern life from the flaws of the cinema to the indignities of sex. The first of a projected 20 volumes of Mark Twain's letters follows the literary apprentice -- at first still using his real name, Samuel Clemens -- as he flees Hannibal, Mo., to become a river pilot, then a journalist covering...
Other colleges are experiencing similar alcohol-related confrontations. With every state but Wyoming having imposed a legal drinking age of 21, schools are faced with the task of trying to enforce selective prohibition. At the University of California, Berkeley, drinking has been banned from public areas of dormitories and at all fraternity and sorority rushes. Last April the University of Oregon forbade the purchase of liquor by the school's 16 fraternities. In New Brunswick, N.J., last month Rutgers University students were indicted for aggravated hazing following the drink-related death in February of an 18-year-old Lambda...
...more abstemious. Furthermore, they may be drinking harder stuff on the sly than they did in the open. A survey of 76 New York colleges and universities in 1986 showed that the percentage of schools with serious drinking problems actually rose from 38% to 43% after the state drinking age went from...
...drugs now. If they were legal, I would use them. Or rather, if marijuana were legal, I would use it occasionally instead of the legal drug I now use regularly, alcohol. To be sure, increased respect for the law is not the only reason so many middle-class, middle-age people have abandoned marijuana: you're also no longer so carefree about where your mind might take you on automatic pilot, especially in public. But society's official disapproval is a substantial deterrent. Without it, many of us would sneak the odd toke...