Word: aspects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athletics and athletic officials around the world. "Sports is an immense force in other countries," says Ueberroth. "Our Government still doesn't understand the consequences of the two Olympic boycotts in 1980 and 1984." Foreign officials sometimes took Ueberroth aside to inquire if he might help change some aspect of White House foreign policy. Ueberroth would explain that in the United States sports of- ficials do not carry that kind of weight...
Crimson: Lawyers are demanding to go farther and farther into the actual process of gathering news and I was curious whether you thought that that was another aspect to this libel business that could potentially damage newspapers...
Sendak would have one believe that the most exciting aspect of this literary event is the story of how Kent Stowell of the Pacific Northwest Ballet convinced a reluctant Sendak to design a new production of the ballet. The familiar stage version is not Hoffmann at all, but rather a hybrid based largely upon Alexander Dumas's bland synthesis of Hoffmann's novella. Sendax became interested in the Nutcracker, when he learned that Stowell intended to crack the old Dumas chestnut with Hoffmann's stronger Nutcracker. The Seattle production was a great success. The triumphant ballet complements the publication...
...this faculty is so strong that he overlooks the disadvantages of his genre. Lasch cannot explore the questions he raises nearly as well as novelists can. Nor can he, in contrast to the religious or ethical writer, and to politicians of all varieties, even pretend to settle an aspect of such issues. I his particular view of the intellect makes it an idol which must be smashed--even if, given the contradictions in Lasch's arguments, it is a very shabby god indeed...
John Naisbitt, speaking in a packed ARCO Forum of Public Affairs, said people would remember the 1980s as a "tremendous shaking period" that would alter every aspect of human life...