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...says the book will take a new approach to analysis of Norse poetry by following the narrative text of an individual ballad as its characteristics alter over time. In this way, he will discover how the plot has or has not remained faithful to the original poetic form, as well as examining the narrative's changing impact on society...
...Committed: These are affectations or adornments that are either (1) uncomfortable and unpleasant, and hence indicate a true believer/martyr/fashion slave, or (2) that have not quite yet achieved mass-market status, and hence are still daring enough to alter the course of the bearer's life...
Dukakis spent the fall on the defensive rather than taking charge of the agenda. He entered the campaign a blank slate, and Bush scrawled all over him. Bush made liberal a dirty word, while Dukakis stupidly insisted that such a label was "meaningless." For John Sasso, the street-savvy alter ego of Dukakis who was rehabilitated on Labor Day weekend to take over the campaign, this single mistake spelled the end. "One of the rules of the business is somebody gets to fill up the cup," he explained. "If you want to be successful, you have to fill...
...political philosophy. Says Andrew Kohut, president of the Gallup Organization: "The Bush people are a lot better at their jobs than the Dukakis people. I don't think the election tells us much about realignment." A successful Bush Administration could lead to another Republican triumph in 1992, however, and alter the face of American politics into the next century...
...question of how to get to that post-Soviet world, how best to encourage either the reform or the further decline of the Soviet Union. However, since Gorbachev is certainly right that the Soviet Union faces only one of these two alternatives, and since either alternative will radically alter the international environment, the U.S. had best start thinking what it proposes to do in a post-cold war world. The outlines of the coming debate are clear. Once the election is over, the debate might actually begin...