Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great colleague," and his death in a substantial loss," said John R. Meyer, Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Economic Growth at the Kennedy School. "He had a constant optimism about him. He always had the feeling that there was a solution to any problem, and more often than not became up with...
...credit, James never wrote down to his periodical readers, even though he knew they included "that great majority of people who prefer to swallow their literature without tasting." Instead, he aggressively savored books in print, waging a constant campaign on behalf of his conviction that the novel is "the most magnificent form of art." James was not entirely alone in this belief. But unlike his contemporary critics and champions of fiction, he refused to lay down rules and precepts about what constitutes good novels: "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation...
...year-old Nancy Davis sounds quite like the 63-year-old Nancy Reagan. In her debutante year, according to the high school yearbook, "Nancy's social perfection is a constant source of amazement. She is invariably becomingly and suitably dressed." At Smith she majored in drama and dated a lot. Her best beau, a Princeton boy, was struck and killed by a New York-bound train a week after the U.S. entered World...
...there is a standard-bearer among living former First Ladies, it is surely Lady Bird Johnson. She was on the cutting edge of the ecological movement, though White House protocol demanded a name like beautification. But her constant pacification of the beast in her husband was her greatest achievement. She wanted a life of art and literature, and on the few times she dragged her young husband into that world he either walked out, sulked or drank too much. He caressed other women in front of her. She shamed him with restraint. He made outrageous requests, like the instant removal...
...abdication of control of modern architecture, and his anger may well embrace $ all the ugly furnishings of the times, which people have simply accepted. Where there is no felt attachment to physical surroundings, the surroundings will be allowed to go their own way, and the individual realizes a constant ache of discontentment with his life, an ache whose source he cannot identify because the source is himself...