Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fought on two levels. On one level were the classic issues, all sprayed over with statistics and figures: disputed factoids of missile and nuclear capability, of budget entitlements, of thunderhead deficits that could prove anything any candidate wanted to prove. Yet underneath, more enduring and more important, was a clash between American cultures. At bottom the candidates were talking about the community of Americans, torn by enormous surges of new forces, bewildered by how to greet or resist them. The campaign was about how we live together-in short, about our culture as a nation in change...
Through the two candidates, two Americas were trying to define themselves-a new America, struggling to be born, not necessarily promising, and an old America, its virtues not necessarily outworn. In this clash, Ronald Reagan...
...clash of cultures in the campaign ended in the spurious debate on church and state...
Last Saturday's Harvard-Penn clash for the Ivy League football championship garnered an average T.V. rating of 0.5, according to Greg Harney, producer of the Ivy League Game of the Week on the PUblic Broadcasting System...
...President must level, yield and plead. He must take action and then assume responsibility. The army of technocrats who run campaigns doesn't want to give up the raucous joy of the hustings. The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget...