Word: beltways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refreshing for us folks in fly-over country to be seen in a deeper perspective. We actually are the backbone of America. East Coast intellectuals, West Coast moralists, self-promoting Beltway politicians and media liberals usually see us only as a source of funding for social programs. However, whether it's taking up arms to defend our nation, starting businesses that provide employment and expansion, or inventing things that make our lives better, in the main it is we along the backbone who do it. LARRY M. HEWIN Williamsburg...
...America does not lie on either coast. After decades in the East, we moved to the Southwest 3 1/2 years ago. We're not merely living in Texas, we're really living. The values and standards set by the Bible Belt and the Rodeo Belt show us that the Beltway is a profanity. And even when this living delight ends, my ashes are not going back East! DICK GRAY New Braunfels, Texas
...Dawson. Really slow weekend? Try Tommy Lee Jones and Faye Dunaway in 1978's "The Eyes of Laura Mars," about the terror stalking of a high-fashion photographer, or scour the classics shelves for the 1948 Dragnet precursor "He Walks By Night," with Richard Basehart as the debonair slasher. Beltway addicts, of course, will want to skip right to "Julius Caesar." Just make sure it's the 1953 version, with Brando as the Emperor Newt...
...moral equation is not so simple. The Washington Beltway is full of people who went there with the intention of making the world better, by their own lights. They may have failed at this or abandoned it, or their vision of a better world may be faulty. But some form of idealism is part of what brought them to Washington, and often some of it remains. That counts for something. A comically touching example of Washington idealism is the group that might be called celibates of the church of greed: denizens of conservative think tanks who have selflessly devoted their...
That Other Beltway, by contrast, gets part of its flavor from the naive egocentrism of brainy teenage boys. (Bellenson and Sasson are not good examples. Check out the Website of software billionaire Paul Allen if you want a taste.) Inside this Beltway some grownups in their 20s and 30s are still obsessed with Captain Kirk. If they have any political interest, it's a lingering passion for Ayn Rand. And this Beltway's spectacular success keeps it, and them, every bit as isolated from the rest of the country as the Beltway at the other end of Highway 50. Neither...