Word: bankrupted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Hitler's 1000-year Reich, it ran out of steam long before anybody expected. Where American ideals and ideas once inspired millions worldwide with hope for the future, the nation now perceives itself as spiritually bankrupt and narcissistic. As the obsession with the gilded past and tragic future continues, it becomes imperative for historians to bulldoze the mythology surrounding the rise and decline of American culture and clear a space for honest interpretation of the bygone era. Ronald Steel depicts American political history through the life and work of Walter Lippmann '10, and achieves a syncretic vision...
After the World went bankrupt, Lippmann took up a column at the New York Herald Tribune, expecting to continue for several years at most. He often complained about the life of a columnist, having to glean his thoughts for a deadline when the subject called for considerably more contemplation, and the need to sully some paper when he had nothing to say. But "Today and Tomorrow," which was syndicated to more than 200 newspapers, lasted for 37 years, until Lippmann's retirement during the Vietnam...
Although he predicted the proposition would pass with a 60-per-cent majority, Manley outlined its faults, saying it would reduce tax revenues, bankrupt several cities, force cities to lay off hundreds of municipal employees, and discourage municipal bond investment...
Thomas Boylston Adams, great-great-grandson of John Quincy Adams, "cannot think of a greater disaster than Harvard becoming the arbiter of what happens to us. They have wonderful ideas and the world would be bankrupt without them, but there are other minds and other talents [whose] ideas will save the world...
...Flanner generally focused her discriminating eye upon the social and artistic elite of Europe. Her work often recalls the advocacy for taste and manners so prominent in the pioneering efforts of Addison and Steele; at other times, Flanner inserts herself neatly into the turmoil of the age, observing a bankrupt Berlin of 1931 or reflecting upon the fate of Warsaw some time after the ghetto uprising. But whether she writes about manners or history, Flanner always manages to construct her point of view in a most effectively self-effacing manner, her own personality hiding watchfully beneath the subtle implications...