Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Andrew Purvis, who reported a good chunk of this week's cover package on Somalia, may have been destined for his assignment in Africa. When he was a boy, his paternal grandfather, a chemical-company executive, filled his head with great tales about his work and travels throughout the dark...
Barnes' reserve is immensely appealing. The person who emerges seems to be that rarest of creatures, a man who understands the infinite allure and necessity of mystery. In an era when too many novelists traffic in meaningless psychobabble, Barnes' novels represent a continent of hope. His work reveals that the...
The ideal inclusive vision is very close to the vision of the first European settlers who came to this continent hoping only for a chance to earn a better life through their own efforts. They wanted no handouts and expected no entitlements. That spirit has made our country great. America...
Since the attacks are occurring with far greater intensity in the east, it has dawned on a hitherto complacent nation that the formerly communist region is an economic and social disaster zone that confronts all Germans with problems graver than anyone imagined. The discontented have found an easy scapegoat in...
America has had it all along too. We believe in freedom -- at the extreme, as passionately as Leatherstocking, who moves halfway across a continent in his 70s because he cannot bear the sound of axes felling trees. But do we believe in it because we are too good for anything...