Word: besting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What matters is that the best of the music -- and the Stones made a fair portion of it -- blowtorches nostalgia away, enlarging the memory, terror and all. The music reasserts history, not sentiment, and makes the same tough demands on head and heart as more traditional literature. Says the writer and essayist Steve Erickson: "Rock displaced the impact of American fiction because it wasn't afraid to believe in itself...
HARP by John Gregory Dunne (Simon & Schuster; $18.95). Novelist Dunne (True Confessions) fesses up that his own barbed style and snappish instincts have roots in an immigrant Irish heritage in which he learned that writing well is the best revenge...
...Colombians. As President Barco told TIME, "Every time a North American youngster pays for his vice in the streets of New York, Miami or Chicago, he becomes a link in the chain of crime, terror and violence which has caused us so much damage and pain. The best help the U.S. could give for the tranquillity and the defense of human rights of Colombians would be attacking face to face the consumption of drugs in that country...
...best-known propagator of the theory that history has an "end," meaning its fulfillment in an ideal political system, was Karl Marx. He believed the contradictions of all previous societies would be resolved by the emergence of a Communist utopia. Marx borrowed his concept from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, who argued that history would culminate, as Fukuyama puts it, at a moment "in which a final, rational form of society and state became victorious...
Adamson, born in India, moved to Kenya in 1924 and in 1938 joined the government wildlife department. In the 1960s he and his wife Joy gained worldwide fame from her best-selling books, like Born Free and Living Free, which recounted their adventures raising captive or orphaned young lions to return to the wild. She was murdered in 1980 by a servant who had been accused of theft and fired...