Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinct impression that his subject is not worth writing about. In the middle of a discussion of the problems posed by minimalist composer Philip Glass, he says of the subject of an earlier essay. "A composer like [Frederic] Rzewski can shift facilely from idiom to idiom because, to be blunt, nobody cares what he does, least of all the people...
...longer days. When his staff handed him fund-raising lists, he sat down and made the grueling calls himself. He even agreed to a speech coach to help him appear more incandescent. He searched for an issue that matched his new forceful style and found one: a blunt call for the U.S. to get a lot tougher about Japanese trade. The high rhetoric had all the sounds of an illiberal protectionism, but Mondale plowed ahead anyway. In front of roaring union audiences, he protested with telling exaggeration that American businessmen almost had to resort to U.S. Army tanks...
...after the harshness of their campaign attacks it is hard to imagine them associating with Washington supporters either. They were blunt enough in sounding Epton's campaign slogan "Before it's too late." And on Election Day, some Epton workers in the 35th Ward, including Orlando Munoz, were even spreading the rumour that Washington was a child molester...
...instinct, Ronald Reagan is no friend of protectionism, and he has gone to some lengths to prove it. His Administration has consistently attempted to blunt the intentions of some protection-minded members of Congress concerned with high levels of domestic unemployment. The President firmly believes that, as he has put it, "free trade serves the cause of economic progress and the cause of world peace." But even an ardent free-marketeer can make exceptions. Last week Reagan did, in a way that brought surprise and outrage from Japanese officials. Slapping an elevenfold increase on American tariffs for, of all things...
DIED. Anthony Blunt, 75, impeccably proper curator of the British royal family's art collection from 1945 until shortly before he was publicly unmasked in 1979 as a onetime Soviet spy; of a heart attack; in London. As a scholar of 17th and 18th century European art, Blunt was a model of well-bred civility and fastidious integrity. But as a Cambridge don in the 1930s he recruited Soviet agents, and as a member of British intelligence during World War II he leaked information to the Soviets. Though he was allowed to continue advising the Queen until his retirement...