Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music director of New York City's Metropolitan Opera. Levine was 4,000 miles away in Austria conducting at the Salzburg festival. Could Hillenbrand, who had reported major TIME stories on such subjects as Gelsey Kirkland and Bobby Fischer, leave immediately? He departed the next day, only to confront another element of the unexpected when he landed. "Arriving in Salzburg at the height of the festival without a hotel reservation," says Hillenbrand, "is like arriving at the Super Bowl without a ticket...
...broadened his experience by heading both the Defense Agency and the powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Says a U.S. diplomat based in Tokyo: "Nakasone is one of the few Japanese who understands the seriousness of the problems we face in trade and defense. He is likely to confront them in a forthright manner...
ROTHMAN AND LICHTER gamely confront the historiographical school which catalogues the New Left as merely the peak of some relentless sine curve on a cycle of generational conflict or reformist sentiment. The authors emphasize the restraints on radicalism in America, invoking historian Louis Hartz's conception of a culture which assumes liberalism as a civic religion from the outset. Struggling against the strong currents of moderation, the New Left formulated a coherent criticism of the very premises of the nation's liberal tradition; it thus attracted a massive following of skeptics where earlier 20th century movements on the Left never...
...think that he's a governments flunkis, but it's right to confront government flunkies sometimes," said Jamin B. Raskin'83 of the Radcliffe Harvard Peace Alliance...
...Atwood does more than just rail against the ugliness of human relations. Her willingness to confront the seamy side of men and women's behavior makes her forgiving. By acknowledging human shortcomings they become less acute Ultimately. Atwood sees the elements of Elizabethan tragedy in modern life, you have to descend to the bottom of the wheel of fortune before you come...