Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to disagree with Hatch on this point more than I do. But there's an element of truth beneath his commie paranoia. "The fact is," said Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), "a crisis was gotten through with reasonable dignity." Weeeell...yeah, in a way. Nick Daniloff is home, prominent Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov and his wife are free, and the heads of the two superpowers will meet to discuss arms control...
...dawning in the West, the era of light. Under city streets and beneath oceans, in commercial skyscrapers and recesses of the Pentagon, a host of new technologies based on lasers, ultrapure glass fibers and exotic new materials are challenging the wonders of conventional electronic gadgetry. In little more than a decade, these inventions have moved from laboratories to modern homes, offices and factories. With growing speed, the new technology promises to turn the electronic age into the age of optics, in which gadgetry built around beams of light becomes virtually indispensable. Says Robert Spinrad, director of systems technology at Xerox...
...college students volunteer for a government experiment and become parents of a daughter with a unique gift: she can make things burst into flame with the force of her will. All of these fantasies are built on an armature of moral order. The good suffer, but the malefactors perish. "Beneath its fangs and fright wig," the author confesses, the horror tale is "as conservative as an Illinois Republican in a three-piece pinstripe suit...
Beyond a few exceptions, Epps says, the undergraduate 350th offers something for everyone. And of course, the dean is right. If you can't dance beneath an ice sculpture of John Harvard or dine with the master of John Harvard's alma mater, you can always attend the Harvard-Cornell football game, or listen to a "New England Bandstand Concert" featuring various undergraduate performing groups...
...much interested in seeing them rescued from the consequences of their passionate irrationality. He really wants to save the world by showing just how stupid some of its creatures can be. He may go about his task with cool and stylish professionalism, but he stokes a crusader's fire beneath his admirably calculated...