Word: blankings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be better suited to Kelley, who always has something to say about everything. In fact, the only thing he draws a blank on is how he got the nickname "Snooks...
Presidential Aide Michael Deaver began collecting ideas for the State of the Union speech in November, and the President took a preliminary draft to California on his end-of-year vacation. Reagan and his aides have been extensively rewriting ever since. As of last week, the draft contained blank spaces for new bud-jet figures and proposals. Nonetheless, Reagan took 33 min. to deliver it in a preliminary run-through and told advisers: 'I want to sweat it down some more." He is aiming at 25 to 28 min. Thus the speech will probably contain only bottom-line numbers...
Workers trusted Ronald Reagan in 1980; they wanted to "give him a chance." But this trust was given grudgingly--people who have voted Democratic all their lives would often rather fight than switch. Reagan's victory was a cautious mandate born of desperation, not an enthusiastically written blank check. The failure of Reaganomics to deliver jobs sets the stage for an especially harsh backlash heightened by blue-collar feelings of betrayal...
...Snark is a poem about being and nonbeing, an existential poem, a poem of existential agony. The Bellman's map is the map that charts the course of humanity; blank because we possess no information about where we are or whither we drift. The Snark is, in Paul Tillich's fashionable phrase, every man's ultimate concern. This is the great search motif of the poem, the quest for an ultimate good. But this motif is submerged in a stronger motif, the dread, the agonizing dread, of ultimate failure. The Boojum is more than death...
...Snark is a poem about being and nonbeing, an existential poem, a poem of existential agony. The Bellman's map is the map that charts the course of humanity; blank because we possess no information about where we are or whither we drift. The Snark is, in Paul Tillich's fashionable phrase, every man's ultimate concern. This is the great search motif of the poem, the quest for an ultimate good. But this motif is submerged in a stronger motif, the dread, the agonizing dread, of ultimate failure. The Boojum is more than death...