Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Now Gorbachev is giving the Soviet Union yet another new taste: a political convention. Next week's 19th All-Union Communist Party Conference is developing into something almost Western in tone: a genuine political meeting, complete with delegate fights, a sense of spontaneity and a platform ringing with promises of...
WORLD: Moscow gets set for a Western- style political convention
BEFORE Edward Albee wrote that famous sexual shouting match, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, before he was too old to be an Angry Young Play-wright, he wrote two one-act attacks on convention, complacency and middle-class values. Thirty years later, The American Dream and The Zoo Story...
Reading, alas, can be deceiving. Finally, a few words about the press, that media mob of 3,000 journalists who descended on Iowa like commandos hitting the beaches of Normandy. Certainly, when it came to influencing the results, the press proved to be a paper tiger. Despite his glowing clip...
For the second time in a month, Ronald Reagan is heading for a summit. This time the main topic will not be world peace and how to preserve it but a more immediate challenge: how to ensure the stability and prosperity of the global economy. The President will travel to...