Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that is. The President is taking a whole series of high-risk gambles. He is betting first that Congress can be persuaded to pass at least the key elements in his program in recognizable shape. That is at least questionable: though Reagan has clearly convinced the nation that a bold new venture must be attempted, he is asking Congressmen to vote for spending cuts that will hurt their own constituents-and there is something in his plan to offend just about every lobby in Washington...
...flowed into the new Premier's office not only from party officials, but also from workers, students and local chapters of Solidarity, the in dependent union federation. The whole country seemed to realize that a campaign of cooperation was Poland's last, best hope of consolidating its bold experiment in socialist "renewal" and avoiding the ultimate disaster of a Soviet invasion. Summing up the increasingly conciliatory national mood, Solidarity Spokesman Karol Modzelewski told the daily Zycie Warszawy that the new government "created a genuine chance for rolling back a dangerous course of events...
Polanski seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding of Thomas Hardy. Hardy rebelled against the genteel tradition in Victorian literature. His novels describe violence, poverty and, particularly, sexuality with startling candor. He scandalized the literary classes with his disdain for repressive society, his grim mockery of propriety. His works were bold, cynical, and for most of his audience, shocking--not unlike the more familiar work of film director Polanski. Perhaps it was their shared obsessions with the impervious force of Evil, the cruelty of the bourgoisie, and the sudden, unpredictable groin-kicks of Fate that initially attracted Polanski to Hardy...
...Reagan never gave Haig a firm no, and, like any bold technocrat, the Secretary interpreted this as a green light to begin putting his ideas into action. He arrived at State with half a dozen or so trusted associates, who helped him quickly assemble a crew of experienced assistants and deputies. "My nominees," he has pointedly called them, despite White House aides' reminders that they were really presidential appointments...
...peasants have occupied a government building for six weeks, the group's leaders suddenly reversed themselves. They now threatened not to plant crops this spring unless they are granted full union status. They also received an influential new endorsement: Poland's Roman Catholic hierarchy issued a bold statement declaring that the farmers' "right to free assembly as trade unions must be recognized." Once again Walesa's calls for moderation were tending to be undercut within his own ranks and among his own allies...