Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Administration sources say Scowcroft was blunter with the Chinese in private, telling them that since the U.S. had made the initial move to repair relations, Beijing had better reciprocate, and soon. He gave that demand a sharp twist, blaming the U.S. Congress for the frostiness in Sino-American relations. Says a U.S. official: "Scowcroft made very clear to the Chinese that our Congress is the main problem in the U.S.-China relationship, and that if the relationship is as important to them as it is to President Bush, they need to give a positive response, or a series of them...
Gorbachev heard far blunter words than Sakharov's as the day wore on. Leonid Sukhov, a driver from Kharkov, stunned the assemblage by comparing Gorbachev "to the great Napoleon, who fearing neither bullets nor death, led the nation to victory, but owing to sycophants and his wife, transformed the republic into an empire." Marju Lauristin, a prominent Estonian nationalist, asked who in the ruling Politburo "knew in advance that troops would be used in Tbilisi." Others complained about Gorbachev's failure to improve his people's standard of living and mentioned rumors that he is building a fancy dacha...
...many researchers. Said Moshe Gai, a Yale physicist and a member of the Yale- Brookhaven collaboration: "I am dissatisfied and somewhat disappointed with some of my fellow scientists who have done things too much in a hurry." Charles C. Baker, director of fusion research at Argonne National Laboratory, was blunter: "Calling press conferences and making claims of results without having a well-prepared technical report is not the way for a good, professional scientist to function...
Conservatives were less enchanted. "The education establishment has looked awfully happy lately," says Chester Finn Jr., an Assistant Secretary of Education under Bennett. "We need big changes, and the people running our schools are not inclined to make them." An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal was blunter: "This is the first major blunder of ((Bush's)) presidency...
These frame- and cagelike structures became more modeled and blunter in the early '80s. All the same, one was not ready for the swing that appeared in Tucker's work in 1984. He turned to bronze, to figures -- everything his early sculptures had eschewed. This was as unexpected as the moment in 1970 when Philip Guston, known for 20 years as a painter of fugitive gray-rose webs, showed his first paintings of Ku Klux Klansmen and sent an avalanche of taste rolling toward "clumsy" figuration. What was the erstwhile constructor up to? This show tells...