Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apt to forget that it is 1983 and not 1973 when one sees musty, dusty Henry Kissinger taken out of mothballs and appointed to a position where he could get the U.S. into war. Our experience in Viet Nam was enough...
...York, the guys in the bar would give me a big war whoop. Now they say, 'Oh, you're from South Dakota, where you have good tax laws and where industry is moving in.' " Kind of stilted talk for bar chatter, perhaps, but apt. Sioux Falls (pop. 81,000) and the rest of South Dakota are in the midst of a self-made, state-wide economic renaissance. Says Governor William Janklow, 43, a rawhide Republican: "I showed 'em we can do business out here...
...exception), as hungry for audience approval as any Las Vegas comic. "It's a very heady experience when you get people to laugh," says Buchwald. Reagan, of course, spent most of his life performing. There is a humor specialist among the six White House speechwriters, but Reagan is apt to crack his own jokes spontaneously, as he did with mixed success last week...
...gloss over contradictory interests, incompatible ideologies and opposing cultures as sources of conflict is more than antipolitical. It is dangerous. Those who have long held a mirror to the world and seen only themselves are apt to be shocked and panicked when the mirror is removed, as inevitably it must be. On the other hand, to accept the reality of otherness is not to be condemned to a war of all against all. We are not then compelled to see in others the focus of evil in the world. We are still enjoined to love our neighbor as ourselves; only...
Penck's obsessive loquacity and mock-ritual imagery are apt to cause inflation. "He is like the North Pole," rhapsodizes Curator Cowart, "that place which attracts the navigational magnetic compass from afar but repels and disorients it when approached." The more modest truth, for those with unwiggled needles, is that Penck's imagery is often so obscure that he seems to feel no special responsibility to the system he deploys. A lot of the paintings are mumbo jumbo, and their formal attributes can be remarkably trite-cliché figure-ground reversals, careless scrawly drawing...