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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dylan can twist his words into stunningly complex alliterative or rhyme schemes, using the sound of the words to build associations and feelings, or he can tell a simple story, constantly repeating verses or choruses with his improvised country diction to make his point. He can write about the endless variations of love or about the emptiness felt inside watching a derelict die on the street. His earliest songs, many of them never recorded, are wide-eyed youthful reflections on the misfortune and injustice he saw as he journeyed through America. He writes about having no money, he writes about...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: A Bob Dylan Odyssey | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

Montaigne's desperate solution was isolation--a community of one. But others have had a different dream. In the desert of society, they attempt to build an oasis, a Utopia, to which they can retreat with like-minded friends...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: Back Again | 12/9/1985 | See Source »

...becoming one of the most beloved presidents in recent memory, Ronald Reagan has doubled the national debt, savaged vital social welfare programs, overseen the most massive peace-time arms build up in this nation's history, and made the U.S. a net borrower nation for the first time this century...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Giving Up the Ship | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

Hewitt says he wants to build a computer network which works like "a human organization." In his network, computers would be in communication with each other but would retain the ability to act independently...

Author: By David Cook, | Title: MIT: Making Computers Smarter Than Humans | 12/7/1985 | See Source »

...ARGUMENT'S weakness should not be allowed to undermine the need for of benefits from affirmative action. Affirmative action in education holds out a promise of considerable value: not to repay past ills, but to build a faith in education in the Black community, without which any lasting economic advancement is impossible...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: Reaffirming Affirmative Action | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

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