Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over 1,000 students gathered at Memorial Hall in April 1948 to rally against the escalating Cold...
Just before the class entered, the UnitedStates dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima andNagasaki. At the same time, the Cold War wasbeginning to unfold, and Americans did not yetknow if the world would be a safe place...
...right time at night,"Wallach remembers. "[We] couldn't wear pantsunless it was very cold, couldn't smoke in thestreet...
...cold war's three-card monte. Americans would be at one another's throat for a half-century, sorting out which of the lies was the evil one and which was the harmless. Consider Whittaker Chambers, the aggressive apostate from Lie No. 1: Was he a malignant fabricator? Or was the real deceiver Alger Hiss, who went to his death in 1996 still proclaiming No. 2? Or was it the father of McCarthyism--drunken, reckless Tailgunner Joe, No. 3's bully and birdseed artist, who was the true Antichrist...
...lived as a child with Alger and Priscilla Hiss. He calls it a "time funnel," a point of metaphysical access connecting present and past. Tony worked for years writing unsigned Talk of the Town pieces for the New Yorker. He tells Alger's story as a kind of cold war fairy tale, colored by the moods of our age of therapy: Once upon a time, a boy's idealistic young father was set upon by an ogre who hid under the bridge, Whittaker Chambers (fat, neurotic, with bad teeth and a sick man's mysterious need to destroy), a former...