Word: ascent
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...very notion of "good" writing is a subjective one and a perennial problem for "avant-garde" writers who generally receive little outside approval of their work. Even Ashbery's ascent to the ranks of "academic poetry" was-and still is-something of a mystery to his underground contemporaries. "Ashbery was even then a hero to most of us," North explains. "However, the idea that he would ever be read beyond this small circle seemed an absolute impossibility. It's hard to remember that before 1976 when he won all sorts of awards [for "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror...
...dead a series of Contract with America bills that had sailed through the House. When Dole griped about the way he stalled Republican initiatives by tacking on unrelated amendments, Daschle retorted, "Welcome to the Senate, Senator Dole." Even West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who had opposed Daschle's initial ascent to leader, renominated him for the post in 1996. Said he: "I was totally wrong about this young man. He has steel in his spine, despite his reasonable and modest demeanor...
...husband were to win the seat. "It's what Mel would have wanted me to do," she told a crowd gathered in Rolla, Mo. Is it what she wants to do? Perhaps. Mrs. Carnahan was apparently moved by Cokie Roberts' encouragement, who recounted her own mother's ascent to politics after her father, Louisiana representative Hale Boggs, disappeared in a plane over Alaska. The campaign, Roberts told Carnahan, helped her mother overcome her grief. And it's quite possible that simple self-preservation has been the impetus for many of the 41 widows who've taken over their husbands' seats...
...generations? The computer? The mapping of the human genome? The revolution in science, communications, technology, medicine, all of which have transformed human life in the years since Moynihan came to work in the New Frontier. Globalization? (Global Americanization?) Triumph of markets, death of ideology, the liberating but culture-killing ascent of money as the planetary measure of worth. The Copernican change in the roles of men and women, because of the pill, the sexual revolution, the women's liberation movement and women's ascent toward power in every field? The immense environmental changes in the planet - population growth, the cancellation...
...shared historic experience of the hip-hop nation is rich, complex and storied, replete with triumphs and tragedies; heroes and villains; martyrs and charlatans; trials and tribulations (a lot more trials, actually), and even a civil war that threatened to destroy it. Charting the culture's ascent from those heady first days to its dominant place today is the focus of the Brooklyn Museum's ambitious "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes and Rage" exhibit...