Word: blight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, McGuane rejects the charge that he has turned his back on reality by retreating to "a kind of Early American theme park." To McGuane, both urban blight and rural isolation are symptoms of a deeper problem. "I do think that there's a kind of national illness, and I think that every American is touched by it," he says. "It's a by-product of this 20-year wave of narcissism and self-help movements and stuff where people have lost the ability to refer to things larger than themselves, and their reward is solitude. It penetrates Montana...
Washington's tacit backing of the Khmer Rouge may have contributed as much to the diplomatic impasse as did Hanoi's support of its stubborn Cambodian clients. That sad symmetry is beginning to look like the latest blight on America's dismal record in Southeast Asia -- and the Bush Administration's first major foreign policy debacle...
...David W. Blight, who left a junior position at Harvard last year to accept a tenure-track post at Amherst College, said that rejections such as McKay's would not be such large blows if the tenure system at the University could make appointments more quickly and easily...
...Blight said the University-wide problems were exarcerbated in Afro-Am because of its small size and unconventional fields of study...
...disappointed, but not surprised" at McKay's decision, said Blight, a personal friend of McKay's. "It would have been a big boost for the department...