Word: centeredness
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Lehman’s June 11 speech centered on the University’s recent accomplishments, ranging from a sharp increase in application numbers to alumni donations of record levels. His resignation announcement—unexpected by most audience members—came only in the final minutes of his...
As for Rehnquist he could, of course, still slip his resignation to President Bush later today or any other day-if he hasn't already. But he wasn't nearly as pivotal today as some might have expected. Rather, in a pair of decisions about public displays of the Ten...
Still, even an empty notion can be pressed into political service. A liberal talking about the future is perhaps trying to distinguish himself from old-line, constituency-centered liberalism, what Kevin Phillips contemptuously calls "reactionary liberalism." That might have served some purpose in 1984. But what is the point now...
Those Cambridge encounters further propelled Frayn away from asbestos sales and into an exemplary career as journalist, novelist and playwright. While still an undergraduate, he contributed to the premier humor magazine Punch. Straight out of school, he wrote news and columns for the Manchester Guardian and then the Observer. Turning...
Stockman's narrative about Reagan and his aides is at times so unintelligible (the President, he writes, "had no concrete program to dislocate and traumatize the here-and-now of American society") and so stunningly self-centered (the Reagan revolution was not Reagan's, "it was mine") that it provokes...