Word: calmly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true, according to friends, advisers and Navy colleagues interviewed by TIME. Poindexter, says one, "is completely at peace with himself." The basis for his calm: he simply feels he did nothing wrong -- and certainly broke no laws -- in helping arrange secret arms sales to Iran and permitting Oliver North's gunrunning operations to the contras. "He had authority, direct or indirect, for everything he did," says a onetime adviser. Even on the diversion of Iranian funds to the contras, friends say, Poindexter believes that he was following Ronald Reagan's policies and that he kept the President adequately informed. Indeed...
American history in the past 100 years has arranged itself in the cycles with an odd neatness. A period of economic depression, war, social change and activism has generally been followed by a spasm of reactionary backlash, followed by a time of consolidation, relative calm and prosperity...
...next cycle turned on the Great Depression, the New Deal and World War II, followed by the backlash of McCarthyism and the era of relative calm and prosperity during the 1950s and early '60s. Then the real '60s: turbulence, crisis, war, the rhetoric of revolution...
...resolve that controversy. There was always the suspicion that because Gardner's books were set in the 1960's and reflected the turbulence of that period so well, they were somehow limited to that time. Yet even though we are now in the latter half of the the supposedly calm and reflective '80s, The Sunlight Dialogues, first published in 1972, is as fresh and pertinent as ever...
After fifteen minutes of discussing things like my ex-boyfriend and the stress of mid-terms, my reading was concluded. He wished me fuck in "dealing" and I thanked him as I exited the apartment and stepped back into the elevator, leaving the smell of incense and the calm of herbal tea for the hectic bustle of the Square...