Word: arene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oddly enough, nearly everyone in the novel talks this way, as if the U.S. during the early 1960s were crawling with metaphysicians. "There's more to it, there's something we don't know about," muses a Cuban exile and hit man. "There's something they aren't telling us," says David Ferrie, a real person, now dead, familiar to conspiracy buffs. "Something we don't know about. There's more to it. There's always more to it." A CIA operative ponders, "We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression...
...young Americans aren't being taught to understand the world around them; they are growing up secure in the supremacy that ignorance breeds. It's easy to accept unquestioningly the xenophobia of "we're number one" if you can't even locate the competition on a map. Mom, baseball and apple pie thrive on a single-minded vision of the United States, one which hardly acknowledges the vast majority of the world's population...
...vision of America where graft and corruption aren't tolerated. Where the president tells the truth, and requires his subordinates to remain above reproach. Bush, for eight years, has remained silent about his corrupt associates...
...would not be surprising if Bush picked up on the Southern strategy. However, there aren't too many Southerners that Bush can choose from. But there are a couple of names that are prominent in the South: Reagan's former Chief of Staff Howard Baker and former Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole...
ATLANTA--In Thomasville, North Carolina, some folks wish President Reagan could run for reelection. They like the Gipper, and they aren't too impressed by either of his two possible successors...